BTW, I'm skeptical of using the third question example on slide 13. It's not simple in the same way as the others, and it's certainly not testable. "Can _A_ be used to _B_" is only simple and testable if there's only one obvious way to use A to attempt to achieve B. If there's a wide variety of possible ways to use A, many of which haven't been thought of yet by anyone, then you can't answer the question "Can _A_ be used to ..." - you can only answer whether the particular thing you tried with A happened to do it or not.
LOL. When giving it live I use that as the pause to make sure everyone is with me. It doesn't work with out interpretation though. And your right the third example isn't a testable if A then B, but it is a real question brought up by clinicians. So, I think it's ok, but will give it thought.
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BTW, I'm skeptical of using the third question example on slide 13. It's not simple in the same way as the others, and it's certainly not testable. "Can _A_ be used to _B_" is only simple and testable if there's only one obvious way to use A to attempt to achieve B. If there's a wide variety of possible ways to use A, many of which haven't been thought of yet by anyone, then you can't answer the question "Can _A_ be used to ..." - you can only answer whether the particular thing you tried with A happened to do it or not.
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Thanks.
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