When Designing an Experiment there are three "classic" mistakes.
One is to not extract all of the information that is embedded within the results. You paid the money to run the experiment but didn't cash the paycheck.
The second is attempting to extract more information than is actually embedded within the results. That is why the experimenter is required to present a hypothesis a priori rather than look at the results afterward to find a peg-hole he can jam the data through.
The third defect is to so dislike the results that one creates a parallel universe and magically find a palatable cause-effect relationship.
Ossified-Cortex beat a tired Democrat with the appeal of day-old dog vomit. The Democrat, whose name everybody has already forgotten, took his constituency for granted. She went out and worked. Her people rang doorbells and pushed, pushed, pushed.
Faced with the message that candidates who WORK will WIN, they naturally came to the conclusion that the United States is screaming for a system where rewards are decoupled from work.
Very well said.
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