ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overnight Delivery, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Scientific Method
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Science - the acquisition and organization of knowledge through observation, hypothesis testing, and theory building. Check/test the hypothesis using data generated from additional observations. If falsified adjust the hypothesis accordingly and start over and over again. Law of superposition (law = theory that has been tested over and over, that is taken as true): The sequence of observable strata from the bottom to the top reflects the order of deposition from earliest to latest (used fossils to test this theory) Sequence of the layering rather than the age of item. The art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. It often means coming into conflict with accepted dogma or conventional wisdom and being creative. Fred"s smith"s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service in the early 60s got a c from his teacher. Fred smith later went on to create fedex. Moral of the story never listen to teachers.
