I believe they discuss it in the movie Contact. I thought it was a
good movie (Razor part has no bearing on this opinion).
On 27 Apr 2006 08:44:30 -0700, "-hh"
wrote:
>Jack Hamilton wrote:
>> Kurt Ullman wrote:
>>
>> >"when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same
>> >predictions, the one that is simpler is the better." (g)
>>
>> But the guy who was claiming that doctors apply to work on ships because
>> they're incompetent wasn't really applying Occam's Razor - he was just
>> making unsupported or irrelevant assertions.
>
>Low skill levels is merely one possible reason, and because it is a lot
>simpler of an explanation than any of the "possibilities" that Mr.
>Hamilton listed, Occam's Razor applies. The fact that there is
>lattitude for exceptions in any individual, specific case does not
>invalidate the generalized case for what is the more likely.
>
>FWIW, free clue: the similarly "simplest explanation" for why one
>would be inclined to go research the specifics of medical
>record-keeping requirements outside of a national jurisdiction and so
>forth ... would generally be from an actual incident where a need to
>consider a medical malpractice lawsuit was present.
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>-hh |
