PHL 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Consilience, Scientific Law
8 Jun 2020
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That way, any effects due solely to the subjects" belief that they are being treated will occur equally in both groups. So any effectiveness of the treatment itself will be manifest as an extra effect, additional to the placebo effect. Single-blind: the subjects cannot know whether they are genuinely being treated. Experimenter bias: when the beliefs, attitudes or emotional commitments of the experimenter influence the data recorded and the conclusions drawn from it. Double-blinding: one in which neither the subjects nor the experimenter know which subjects are in the test group and which are in the control group. A theory is implausible on it"s face when accepting it would require that we reject not only whatever other theory deals with the same specific phenomena, but a range of other highly confirmed theories as well. Consilience: the virtue of success for a theory or method in one domain when it was originally formulated to explain something else.
