ABSTRACT
One way to look at miscue research and other research based in scientific realism is that it is hypothesis generating rather than hypothesis testing. Because the goal is to provide an explanatory theory of the structures and processes, that theory can be used to predict what would happen in particular conditions. So, it is possible to construct experiments to test the predictive power of the theory. Because scientific realism deals with actual reality, it is possible to use the procedures of the research to help people understand the nature of reality. Fred Gollasch turned the author's informal experiments into a formal one. He modified the story a bit and added a sixth embedded error. The basic results were highly predictable in view of the less-formal experiments the author had been doing for years. Jingguo Xu replicated the Gollasch study. His intent was to test the applicability to Chinese of the constructivist model of reading.
