So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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@KevinSimler Although, unfortunately, it’s not *completely* irrelevant; it’s sometimes actively misleading, and leads to scientific errors, which is why I’m ranting about it.
In many fields advanced undergrad / beginning graduate students were taught that p<0.05 NHST is the embodiment of [Popperian] Scientific Method, and so they accepted that uncritically. (Maybe many still are taught that and still do accept it?)
Proof that we are both Highly Correct
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+scientific+method&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cthe%20scientific%20method%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bthe%20scientific%20method%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BThe%20scientific%20method%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bthe%20Scientific%20Method%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BThe%20Scientific%20Method%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BTHE%20SCIENTIFIC%20METHOD%3B%2Cc0 … Positivism? FWIW my education (South Africa, late 70s through 80s) never used the phrase.
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