PSY-2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Jennings Bryan, Scopes Trial, Clarence Darrow
4 Feb 2020
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Famous us legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, john scopes, was accused of violating tennessee"s butler act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Scientific evidence portrayed by bryan as "insidious: additionally scientific evidence was inadmissible in court/not able to be put into the evidence, the scientific method, assumes truth is discoverable. Is grounded in systematic empiricism: empiricism implies being able to observe something/do not assume something to be true unless you have observed it. Systematic empiricism is really important because it attests to the methodology and order behind observing things (ex. Put a and b together, b and c together, and a and c together-- order, method, record, etc. : addresses testable questions, **requires clear definitions and operationalism (chapter 4--this chapter is essentially the. See if there was a flaw in how the information was collected: consider if there are other possible explanations for the facts or results [alternative explanations]
