PSYC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clinical Trial, Internal Validity, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Week 2 lecture #2: tuesday may 10, 2016. Should be controversial, have to take a stance and back it up w/ evidence. Should read the szabuniewicz textbook and working thru the workbook. The need for skepticism: review and critique of the scientific method. Explore possible biases and corollaries of research findings. Methods we use in day to day world and in some other disciplines subject to numerous limitations. And not looking at the systematic data. Confirmation bias: having a concept mind and seeking to prove it through research, and not questioning it. Very little data and we make encounters about. We paid attn. to what we think is true and ignore the rest. The mass aren"t critical thinkers (american following trump) Very little data about sth but still practice it (rubbing infant"s nose to potty train them) Placebo effect, influence of mind and body. To critically evaluate it and analyze it.
