I believe Jaynes was implying that since the experimenters didn’t have a threshold model in mind, the experiment did not measure a broad enough range of doses to distinguish between a linear response and a threshold. For example, if the only tests of the sweetener were at doses which produced harmful effects, then it might be impossible to derive the correct model based on only that data.
I believe Jaynes was implying that since the experimenters didn’t have a threshold model in mind, the experiment did not measure a broad enough range of doses to distinguish between a linear response and a threshold. For example, if the only tests of the sweetener were at doses which produced harmful effects, then it might be impossible to derive the correct model based on only that data.