PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Base Rate
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And to do so you need to manipulate variables. Science is providing good evidence to believe something not prove it. Things have multpule causes, and we try to isolate for the cause: without theoretical debate you can"t have a good theory. This includes any experiment in theoretical debate: experiments changes independent which is dependent on independent variables. Line of best fit allow one to construct infinite numbers of functions and since you can construct infinite amount of lines, inductive reasoning (specific general) is never certain. Deductive reasoning (general specific) is good but you learn nothing new. Theoretical debate has 2 functions: alternative that we can control (consider theory in theoretical debate, focus on, which one you"re going to test. Method of difference manipulate x to seeif it predicts difference in the variable. Experiments end with discussion not with results because you can"t conclude anything.
