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| Scientific ways of knowing |
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1. Reasoning/Rational Logic 2. Empericism/Experience |
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| To develope theories, deduce testable hypotheses, evaluate merit of theory based on results of hypotheses tested |
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| Structured controlled, objective experiences (experiments) used to test hypothesis generated from theory |
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-How true something is based on how it happens to us -misrepersents what is true about reality EX. - People who wear red are jerks |
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-no room for maybe -the observers will agree to what is seen |
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| Assumptions Underlying Scientific Thinking |
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Regularity Discoverability Objectivity Data Driven Statistical Determanism Subject to Revision |
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| Events in nature including human behavior they follow some law of occurance, they have uniformity |
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| Rules that can be found, laws of occurance |
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-reality that exist that is identifiable by more than one observer -Precise definition of terms -Eliminating such human factor as expectation and bias -Precise defintion/description of procedures used |
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- Conclusion about behavior to be supported by the evidence of object information gathered by control systematic procedure -Result of an experiment is Data |
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- General law of human behavior can be predicted with the probability greater than chance Strict determinism- can determine 100% -causal structure of the universe enables the prediction of all events |
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-the current body of data always considered temporary -never to be considered the truth |
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