[COGS 14A] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 15 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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A prescribed set of activities to explain how natural phenomenon operate. William gosset did analyses of agricultural goods (early 1900s) Tried to find out how to rate crop yields based on small samples. This was different because statistical methods of the time relied on large samples. He created a method to do this called the t-test . This was defined by systematic applications of prediction, experimentation, observation, measurement, evaluation, and communication. New instruments found greater errors of measurement. There became a greater emphasis on the probable over the certain. This means that now anyone with training could do science. Lecture 2: ways of knowing: intro to the scientific method 1/11/17. Relies on tradition; accepted truths and habits, learned. Basing beliefs on what feels right, absence of deliberation and reason. Highly subjective, based on emotion, resistant to objective facts. Highly susceptible to confirmation bias- the search for info that is consistent with already held beliefs.
