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themultidisciplinarian.com | ||
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | A question long argued in the philosophy of science is the demarcation problem. How to we distinguish science from non-science? Karl Popper famously proposed falsifiability as a criteria. To be science, a theory must make predictions that could turn out to be wrong. It must be falsifiable. Theories that are amorphous or flexible enough to... | |
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blog.apaonline.org
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| | | | | "[C]onfusion about the foundations of the subject is responsible, in my opinion, for much of the misuse of the statistics that one meets in fields of application such as medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, and so forth." (George Barnard 1985, p. 2) "Relevant clarifications of the nature and roles of statistical evidence in scientific research may | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | "It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,... | ||
