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SCIENTIFIC METHOD
I
value solving problems by scientific methods: gathering
data, constructing hypotheses to fit the data, testing,
refining, and publishing for others to verify. Scientists
work to insure that bad experimental design, faulty
controls, selection effects, bias, prejudice, errors, etc. are not part
of their investigations. A complex problem may require
reduction to many simpler ones (reductionism) and sorting
out multiple causes / effects. I believe scientific
methods work better than anything else when it comes to
making good predictions and solving problems. If there
were something else that worked better, I’d be for it!
I don’t like pseudosciences, magic, etc. for two reasons:
1) they don’t work; 2) they often involve claims that
can’t be tested. Scientific statements can be tested and
conceivably shown to be false.
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Scientific Method
(from online encyclopedia) |
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History
of the Scientific Method (from online encyclopedia) |
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The
Scientific Method (from WikiBooks open content textbook collection) |
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Design of
Experiments (from online encyclopedia) |
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Reductionism (from
online encyclopedia) |
| The
Scientific Method (concise presentation from Intel International
Science Fair & Science Service) |
| Overview
of the Scientific Method (from Science Buddies website / science fair
perspective) |
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Scientific
Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction, by Barry Gower (read
portions at Google Books) |
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The
Scientific Method (from UC Riverside physics class notes) |
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Science Clarified
(on line science & technology encyclopedic collection of articles) |
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science
as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan |
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Scientific Thinking
and the Scientific Method, by Steven D. Schafersman |
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The
Scientific Method in Practice, by Hugh G. Gauch (read
portions of this 2003 book at Google Books) |
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Realism,
Rationalism, and the Scientific Method, by Paul Feyerabend (read
portions of this book at Google Books) |
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Introduction
to the Scientific Method (from Rochester University) |
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Science.gov ("gateway to over
50 million pages of authoritative selected science information") |
| National
Science Digital Library |
| Scientific
American |
| Scientific
Method Flowchart |
| Science
for All Americans (online book covering the basics of science, from
AAAS) |
| Some
Notes on the Nature of Science |
| An
Introduction to Science |
| Philosophy
of Science |
| American
Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Integrated
Scientific Method |
| Popper
and Kuhn on the Evolution of Science |
| Scientific
Method and the Philosophy of Science |
| Pseudoscience
(from online encyclopedia) |
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The Scientific Method Today, by
Norman Edmund |
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The
Myth of the Magical Scientific Method, by Terry Halwes |
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The Scientific Method in the Movie October
Sky, by Alida Clarke |
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Scientific
Misconduct (from online encyclopedia) |
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related to science |
| quotes
from scientists |
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