PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pseudoscience, Dysentery, Causal Inference

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

A thousand zeros is still nothing: research design. An encapsulated bias; contains the single data point, interpretation and conclusion all in one missing the details as it focuses on only. I had illness y, and was one explanation and this explanation is retold. treated with x, and then got better so it must be x. Interpreted stories about a single occurrence in the past and usually of no scientific value. Anecdotes share with case studies, a small sample size, but that is not their biggest problem. When an anecdote is created and passed along by non-scientists, only information relevant to the interpretation the anecdote is being used to support is recorded and passed down. No separation in an anecdote in terms of theory and evidence: theory is supported by the only evidence, which is mentioned, and the only evidence which is mentioned is there to support the theory. possible future research.