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Parsimonious 1100 Words You Need Week 19 Day 3

Parsimonious 1100 Words You Need Parsimonious 1100 Words You Need /ˌpɑː.sɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/ (adj) extremely unwilling to spend money even on necessary things, too frugal, ungenerous, stingy, miserly, thrifty, tightfisted, mean, sparing, penny-pinching In addition to proposing alternative explanations for a given phenomenon, the goal of science is to develop parsimonious models that capture, explain, and predict natural, humanistic, and social occurrences. As opposed to being developed in a theoretical vacuum, any measurement tool, whether qualitative or quantitative, should be based on theory and used to advance new theories. It follows that the principle of parsimony is at the core of both ...

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