My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.