These frames permit us to make sense of events by permitting us to dissect experience into easily manageable wholes.
Best definition of ed I could find. Paper relates it to simulations and concludes that it does not apply.
"According to the „experimenter‟s regress‟, disputes about the validity of
experimental results cannot be closed by objective facts because no conclusive criteria other than the outcome of the experiment itself exist for
deciding whether the experimental apparatus was functioning properly or
not."
Ergo these disputes are settled by other 'non-scientific' methods such as looking at the reputation of the scientist with the claim, their institutional affiliation, politics, career etc.
Original paper re: the experimenter's regress?
Funny as social science controversy about controversy in science;) - assyntk on 2013-05-11