Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feeling, Empiricism, Dependent And Independent Variables

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Gut feeling vs what an expert has told us vs for science, objective answers. Empiricism: use of objective observations to answer a equation. Intuition and authority often based on bias. Ignores intuition and authority and uses scienti c method. Set of steps used to answer a question. Question is based on many different things. Don"t just come up with completely new elds of research from scratch, but it"s based on what has been done before. Use past research to come up with new research ideas and build on the past. Read the literature thoroughly to know what"s been done before. Need our questions to be as speci c as possible. Some questions can"t be tested empirically e. g. philosophical questions. Falsi ability: if it can be shown it can be false. No way to prove someone is wrong that an alien spaceship is false. Way to prove that no alien spaceship has landed.

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