Two empirical consequences of this asymmetry are explored.
Motivated by our experience in designing a particular social program, skill set signaling for new entrants to the labor market in Peru, we articulate the need for, and explore the empirical consequences of, alternative learning approaches to the design of development projects.
Thus, there may be empirical consequences of incommensurable theory pairs that can be immediately compared.
This does rule out the possibility of using a neutral observation language to compare the empirical consequences of two incommensurable theories.
A new theory often corrects the empirical consequences of the previous one, i.e., \(T_{2}\) entails observational statements \ e_{2}\) which are in some sense close to the corresponding consequences \ e_{1}\) of \(T_{1}\).
In similar vein, De Finetti (e.g., 1974) advocated a view on statistics in which only the empirical consequences of the probabilistic beliefs, expressed in a willingness to bet, mattered but he did not make statistical inference fully dependent on decision theory.
Cooper argued that "it is impossible for anyone to foresee the future accurately enough" to know the empirical consequences of legalizing gay marriage.
While the choice of valuation method is a normative choice and depends on decision context, the empirical consequences of this choice are of interest as it might have critical impact on resource allocation decisions [ 13, 14].
In particular, since every branch in every decomposition of the state has potential empirical consequences for the results of one's future observations, every branch, not just those represented in a favored decohering basis, is operationally real.
