PSY352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arthur Keith, Scientific Method, Sensei
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Professional team presenting data that did not make sense. Give the ppl what they want: desire to believe trumps skepticism. Don"t be too successful: it"ll build resentment and suspicion. Learn from your mistakes-not the first time they done this, take advantage: criticisms teach how to avoid getting caught. An imperfect hoax: why?-shocked, but the japanese weren"t at all. You would not be critical within your own group, you will attack another group. It is very difficult for scientists to be objective. No one heard from f"s case, the japanese said the video should be erased, no one claims to have it, this case has been withdrawn. The research team and f have been gone, no one knows where they are. The piltdown (p) hoax did not impact ppl that much, b/c those who discovered it were dead by that time. And why did it last for so long: main suspect- charles dawson- he was an active forger.
