So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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Yes… so there are innumerable specific methods, and some general themes, but no overall method, and no way of knowing in advance which method(s) will be adequate for solving a particular problem.
Yes. What is "a good problem" is one of the fuzzier things, but even what amounts to "solving" is also often very unclear. Let alone how to get to the solution. Failure of results to correspond to manpower applies even to more definite technical processes, engineering, etc.
One idea I'd like high school students to get exposed to is "all models are wrong, but some models are useful". That said, in physics, both general relativity and the standard model are as far as we can tell, "right", tho unfortunately contradictory.
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