PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, Scientific Consensus
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Results are disseminated through media: academic media etc. Once media exists, it"s available for us to consume it. Journalists change vocab to make it easy to understand. Scientific takes the form of reproducing results: if find something to be true should be able to do the experiement and get things out of it. Scientific consensus : citations: say something is true but u don"t say its true, pnt to person and sayits true. The number of citations u can get adds to your professionalism. Brin and page: the more citations u have, the more consensus there is about an idea. They applied this idea to popularity of pages on the internet. Confusion: chaos trying to rise ourselves collectively out of, when people make honest errors in the scientific process, rejecting an idea that was ereally true or accepting idea that was false: type 1 and type 2 errors.
