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The New Scientific Method

4 pointsby nixtakenalmost 5 years ago

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jlelonmalmost 5 years ago
&gt; There is the old scientific method which was falsifiable, repeatable, frequentist, and it involved directly observable quantities.<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; There is now the new scientific method which involves models, paradigm shifts, bayesianism, and it may not require a control variable when measurements are constructed from multiple, indirect observations.<p>This doesn&#x27;t make much sense to me. How can there be a new scientific method?<p>Shouldn&#x27;t these somehow boil down to the same thing: hypothesis, experiment, evidence against the null?