PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Inference, Scientific Method, Francis Bacon
12 Mar 2016
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Two core beliefs of science: 1: the universe operates according to natural laws. The scieniic method uses logical reasoning derived from philosophy: 1: sir francis. Biases are favouring something and not looking at the other opinions/opions. Example: witnessing a crime and being 100% sure doesn"t mean that they are actually right and will not look at any other opion that they might be wrong. 2: karl popper stressed that a good theory must be able to proven false: it must be falsiiable. Predicions must be made where they could be wrong and therefore falsiiable. This is a statement that can be falsiiable because it can be true or can be wrong. If there are men who are more anxious then women then the statement proves to be false. Freud made a decision that nothing could be falsiiable because he always thought he was right. Step 1: idenifying quesions of interest and reviewing the literature.
