Finally, how can we distinguish good from bad instances of thought experiments?
"We've had some really bad instances, up to the extent of a police officer walking up to students with a real gun loaded with blanks and shooting them, saying 'You're dead," he told me.
Mr. Sharp noted that "bad," for instance, could mean bad, or it be slang for good.
Japanese firms are notoriously bad, for instance, at cutting their losses when investments turn sour.
We don't tend to think of people as simply "good" or "bad", for instance; and life (and literature) would be dull if we did.
We care about the pay-off of a final episode of Breaking Bad, for instance, because we've watched the storyline unfold slowly but surely until it reaches this climax.
Another issue that interests many, and causes quite a lot of debate, is diet/nutrition (is Low-Carb-High-Fat-diet good or bad, for instance).
But while a decade-long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.
(i) spots that were bad (for instance due particles on the slide surface) were manually flagged (for an example see supplementary Figure S3 [ 21]).
These plants won't hurt you or taste bad — for instance, most frozen broccoli that you can buy from your grocery store's frozen foods aisle won't have large florets.
