SOCI 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Literature Review, Cognitive Bias, Fallacy
25 May 2013
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Science is a method of inquiry, a way of learning and knowing things about the world and around us. Most of what we know is a mater of believing what we re told. We can also know things through direct observation and experience. If experience contradicts with agreements, there is a good chance that we ll surrender our experience in favor of the agreement. Scientists have a certain criteria that must be met before they accept the reality of something that hasn t been personally experienced. Science does offer a special approach to the discovery of reality through personal experience. Practically all people have a desire to predict future circumstances. Humans seem prone to undertake this task using: causal reasoning: Recognizing that future circumstances are conditioned by present ones: probabilistic reasoning: The effects of a circumstance occur more when the causes arise but not always.
