REN R205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pileated Woodpecker, Cognitive Dissonance, Karl Popper
21 Sep 2016
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*** a lot of people were missing, he will probably test on this material for the nal heavily*** Not just new species, also species ranges and abundances. (john"s de nition) Sound recordings, tracks and other traces, sightings, photos. popperian science: when the evidence fails to match the prediction, the original hypothesis is falsi ed. and should be abandoned. inductive science: when the evidence fails to match the prediction, good scientists happily admit that they were probably wrong. Cognitive dissonance theory: when the evidence fails to match the prediction, people generally rationalize rather than giving up on their original beliefs. They construct beliefs that allow them to keep their original ideas in tact. Sociologist and aliens created complex arguments that served to reinforce their original belief. Google a claim and add the word skeptic Largest woodpecker that ever lived in america. Feb. 2004, rediscovered after being thought extinct. Accepted by the cornell lab of ornithology.
