Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sare, Ancient Olympic Games, Beni Hasan
12 Oct 2016
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About topics that don"t seem open to be tested by empirical investigation (subjective; can"t be measured) Studies problems connected w existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Allows for a broader range of phenomena to be studied (as compared to areas limited to testing or measuring) Helps us become more open-minded (if we limit ourselves that we can only measure by measurements we are missing a lot of issues) Tools are: logic (what is likely, speculation (what might be) Typically does not include the gathering of data from controlled experiments: results can still be valid and reliable. To understand: the nature and value of pa, how confident we can be about our claims, how we ought to behave in sport and in our professional lives as kinesiologists. Games are artificial problems: game sare created by a set of rules that specify a goal to be achieved and limit the means that participants can use to reach the goal.
