SOC101Y1 Chapter 20: Chapter 20
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Minimizing bias in social science: scientific ideas only accepted after scrutiny by scientific community, scientific practice encourages skeptical reasoning, science would be weaker without values and expectations, expectations and value sin tension in scientific enterprise need them for creativity and passion, objectivity observations free of distorting effects of bales and expectations, subjectivity essential to change and innovation, hallmark of science is creativity. Scientific versus non scientific thinking: sir karl popper the same (arguing against francis bacon who said observation was bedrock of science, before 1700s knowledge of world was custom or common sense; religious knowledge very important, david hume helped scientific way of knowing, created problem of induction ; observation is not enough to infer the next observation will be, collection of facts useless unless understand how to interpret them, observations refuting well conceived idea always more important than evidence supporting a, science starts with a question (well conceived conjecture, public scrutiny, skeptical reasoning, testability.
