The stakes are high, but NASA realized from the get-go that it needed to focus less on developing the perfect analytic model and more on building a data science process that empowers decision-makers to use analytics to answer a multitude of continually changing questions.
And these questions don't have to be weighty, loaded, relationship changing questions!
To those who wish to impose their definition of reality abstractly, independent of emerging empirical knowledge and the changing questions that go with it, and call that either philosophy or theology, I would say this: Please go on talking to each other, and let the rest of us get on with the goal of learning more about nature.
As in many surveys, changing a question's framing changes the answer.
High-risk, high-reward research founded on revolutionary innovations are often disruptive and lead to new paradigms; conclusively the 4D printing can be disruptive, because it has the potential to change the current paradigm by changing the question from "what can we do with these materials/technologies?" to "how can we move the concept/technology forward to achieve what we need".
It was Argentina, not Elliott, Humes told me, that "completely changed the dynamic of restructurings" by "changing the question from what a sovereign can pay to what it's willing to pay".
COAs may have to be adapted for administration using electronic methods (for example by changing the question layout or reducing the number of questions per page), and subsequently there has been debate about the level of measurement equivalence of data collected using different administration modes.
While removing knowledge to change a college knowledge base into a high school one would not require changing the question schemas, adding more knowledge may bring in new predicates and thus necessitate new question schemas.
Changing this question matters.
The G.O.P. is changing: the question, which the cliff debate may help answer, is whether what it is undergoing is a metamorphosis or a fracturing.
