PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Falsifiability, Insite, Essentialism
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More non-scientific ways of knowing than scientific ways. Vancouver is a drug city and insite will only exacerbate things. If insite doesn"t exist, van won"t be like this. High percentage of xxxx but where did the data come from. She also claims the insite in fact lower the rate of overdose cause it provides doctor and nurses. You can show that one can have data that is inconsistent with the hypothesis. A theory can have a true and false part and you don"t know for sure until you have enough evidence. Ex: you have minions in your brain working and disappear if you try to look into brain. The evidence disappears when you look for it. If you can"t find minions you are right; if you can find them, you are also right. First look at weak support and find correlational relationship. Then look into more specific prediction and data. The simpler idea than the complex one.
