Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26006155-20200110011303

Jacky720 wrote: Hmm. I think you're dodging the real disagreement here.

There may be multiple theories hypotheses that account for all of the evidence.

You want to judge these by how much sense they make to the author. And I would agree, if we could formally judge what we're looking for.

We can't, so I judge them by Occam's Razor. Not interconnectedness or Story Potential.

Your approach is to discard that much of the formality. True? As we talked about earlier, Occam's Razor says that the simplest of the available *Working Solutions* is most likely true.

Going back to "Dr. A is Gay", where Doctor Andonuts' seeming indifference to his wife in the Halloween Hack was supposedly due to 'represed homosexual tendancies', this is actually disqualified, because it really *isn't* a working solution.

Dr. A is Gay doesn't explain why Andonut's behavior toward his wife *CHANGED*. They used to be close, but now, suddenly, he can't bare to look at her. If Dr.A was always a closet homosexual, why is this only flaring up now? Why didn't it prevent him from marrying his wife, and above all things having a son with her?

Dr. A is Gay is also just an attempt to explain Andonuts' attitude towards his wife. It does not explain why Andonuts' behavior has changed towas his SON also! This shouldn't affect Jeff at all.. and yet, all of a sudden, Andonuts is avoiding them both, which they both know is not typical behavor for him. Dr. A being Gay does not explain the changed attitude toward Andonuts' entire family.

After the "NO" fight, we come across Andonuts looking over his wife's grave, seemingly full of regrets. Odd behavior for someone who never liked her. And he even vows never to lie again, knowing the pain that caused his wife, who either left him, or died from despair as he shut her out.

The "NO" fight begins right after Mrs Andonuts asks him if anything is wrong.. and it's clear that saying "NO" is a lie, because something is terribly wrong.

Dr. A is Gay is not a working solution. And as such, Occam's Razor throws it out even before testing its simplicity.