- Moderator
- #81
Oh for gods sakes!I beg your pardon?
Observation
Hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, forming a conclusion on the hypothesis.
All four of those things occur in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
You aren’t even following the same hypothesis through this!
Pillar One: We have observation.
Observation 1. You observe an increase in children be tween 0 and 2, with speech delays coming to your clinic.
Observation 2. You observe that due to a pandemic peop,e are wearing masks, practicing social isolation, and interacting less in person.
Those are the observations apparent in the article, right?
Pillar Two: Hypothesis
We think masking is causing the speech delays.
Pillar Three: test the hypothesis.
How will you test it?
You: the doctor will test the child for speech delays.
That is the wrong hypothesis. We are not hypothesizing whether or not the child has speech delays. We know the child has speech delays. We want to know WHY and whether our theory about the WHY is correct. Right?
How specifically does diagnosis test the theory of causation?