So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
The popularity of this concept of """the"" scientific method" is baffling. Basically no philosophers of science held that such a thing existed post-Kuhn, and that wasn't universally believed before then. Yet it is The Standard taught in many public schools.
Yup; and nearly all scientists claim to believe in it, although two minutes of consideration of their own typical working day would be adequate to disprove it. It’s a law of nature that everyone has to have a religion, and this is one of them.
Curious what your source is for "nearly all scientists claim to believe it"? I associate it with science fans, less so with good scientists (though there are _some_ very good scientists who use the phrase). Also, related:pic.twitter.com/JGflUiSIoa
“Nearly all” is just my anecdotal experience, which may be distorted by memory or atypical. Perhaps it’s also a generational thing? Indoctrination with 1950s philosophy of science may have been more prevalent when I was a student than it has been in recent decades.
The scientific method should at least be given respect as an organizing myth, one still followed in the structure of a paper, especially when there is a definite experiment. It is also worthy to try to explain how science differs from other things, both to children and outsiders.
The easiest way to refine the "scientific method" is to describe how practice is iterative, and the interplay between theory development and experience. Also, science is pretty inseparable from definite methods of "finding out", and so is strongly influenced by technology.
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.
Yup and yup!
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