I liked this from @sapinker's new bookpic.twitter.com/RCyb3fQhwQ
I'm not a fan of the idea of a "Scientific Method". It's far too oversimplified; there are many standards for evidence, & in most fields a social ratchet gradually increases standards. Still, collectively, there's scientific methods. (Quote below is Alan Kay)pic.twitter.com/0DSzXCI77l
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Interesting. I've heard lots of practicing research scientists use the term. As my comment suggests I'm not sympathetic to it, but certainly my experience is different from Pinker's.
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Some philosophers of science even hold that, not only is there not The Scientific Method, there is not even a single scientific method. As Feyerabend has it: anything goes.pic.twitter.com/VozOL2Clm3
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If you take the exaggeration out of "Against Method", I have a good deal of sympathy for Feyerabend. But he misses many important things, too.
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maybe you are aware of it, but this is related: https://twitter.com/barabasi/status/969346002833551360 … Nice timing :)
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Come up with an idea, actively try to prove it false. It's not about standards of evidence, it's about method and direction.
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Yeah and we must be willing to change methods as we learn to improve them. Collectively, this is a challenge.
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