"Stick and Move," an improvisatory collaboration between Sally Schuiling, a dancer and choreographer, and Melissa Houston, a percussionist, resembled a conversation between strong-minded friends in which bold musical phrases were answered by equally bold dance steps.
The jury's still out on that one, but scientists have now answered an equally important and related question: How did early RNA molecules grow longer and more complex without succumbing to destructive mutations?
The answer, equally reliable, is probably not.
As a teacher of history, she would be familiar with Solon's admonition to Croesus of Lydia — no one's life can be deemed happy until it is over — which makes her hope for answers equally fascinating and futile.
To be honest, I found both sets of answers equally unsatisfying.
However, in the same situation Vice President Joe Biden could have responded similarly: "Do you want Mitt Romney to be elected?" And the answer equally would be no.
39 While Hill 38 acknowledged that neither of his criteria represent indisputable evidence for or against a cause and effect hypothesis, they do help to determine "…whether there is any other answer equally, or more likely than cause and effect".
What they can do, with greater or less strength, is to help us to make up our minds on the fundamental question— is there any other way of explaining the set of facts before us, is there any other answer equally, or more, likely than cause and effect?
In the context of a classroom peer discussion, the bar graph of student responses could represent strong whole-course peer influences and because of an unconscious desire to conform, students might not consider all answers equally, thus lowering the quality of peer discussion.
This view of causal inference is different from that in Austin Bradford Hill's causal considerations that may "… help us to make up our minds on the fundamental question is there any other way of explaining the set of facts before us, is there any other answer equally, or more, likely than cause and effect?" (14, p. 299).
