That may be the case, but I think that is peripheral to the point of this post. If for some reason I wanted to find out the value of a variable (and this variable could be anything, including a correlation), how would I go about doing it.
I am taking the point of the post to be as indicated in the title and the lead: creating a model for doing Empirical Science. Finding out the value of a variable — especially one with no physical existence, like a correlation between two other variables — is a very small part of science.
That may be the case, but I think that is peripheral to the point of this post. If for some reason I wanted to find out the value of a variable (and this variable could be anything, including a correlation), how would I go about doing it.
I am taking the point of the post to be as indicated in the title and the lead: creating a model for doing Empirical Science. Finding out the value of a variable — especially one with no physical existence, like a correlation between two other variables — is a very small part of science.