Interpretation of experiments depends on the history of their implementation

Evidence

We can now return to the natural experiment and consider an alternative interpretation of its results, one that is more closely related to the implementation of neoliberal economic experiments whose wider history has just been outlined. This alternative account will follow the work of economics, examining the processes that make some facts possible and not others. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1956

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chance of history timing determined which experimental film became canonical — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1859; Scientific experiment is the historical origin of united theory and practice — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1586; History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Chance of history timing determined which experimental film became canonical #exemplifies (0.90) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1859
• History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it #qualifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203
• A system’s output depends on its remembered history #expands (0.85) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 112
• The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence #exemplifies (0.78)
• One’s fundamental project determines the meaning of one’s past #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1184
• Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679
• Scientific experiment is the historical origin of united theory and practice #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1586
• Experimental findings in economics circulate and reinforce the facts of the field #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1980
• Histories and causal narratives persist buried inside the language used to tell them #expands (0.72)