PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inductive Reasoning, Falsifiability, Testability
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An assumption that there is some world order, or causal relations for the variety of phenomena we see every day. Without some order, there would be no need to understand why things happen. Because we have this assumption, we still have to find evidence for the cause and effect of relations. We have to make structured and systematic observations to prove our assumptions. Must eliminate as many alternates explanations, measure what it is we need to better understand the relationship. This data collection lets us check if our data is valid and also allows others to check our data as well (replicability) Opportunity to check validity of our work by redoing or reconstructing our methods. A theoretical tie breaker, in a collection of findings, they can be equally explained by two different ideas. The tie breaker goes to the idea that is simpler. It requires fewer adjustments to be made to the science we know.
