KINE 2049 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thalidomide, Fathom, Unintended Consequences

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 2049
• Professor: Merv Mosher

Document Summary

4 significant points in human history: language: communicate ideas, writing: ideas can be saved and distributed, printing press ideas can be distributed on large scale, computers: search and analyze information faster. Computers as research tools: excel, sas, searching etc. Ways of knowing: 5 caprs: custom and tradition: birthdays, christmas etc, authority: they say that, teachers, police (authority figures give us knowledge) Science is built on the contributions of scientists not their authority. Inductive: specific cases to general application, based on empirical methods: specific introductions, general conclusions, dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s fi(cid:374)(cid:272)hes, birds differ on islands -> evolution. The scientific method: an area of study is called sciences due to method of study not the content the techniques used to get knowledge is reliable, truthful and factual are referred to as sciences. People (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot fatho(cid:373) this idea, so they simply laugh at how impossible it seems.