SOAN 2120 Lecture : first week

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Lead and intelligence: the needlemen case was a 1975 study of the effect of lead on children. 158 does not add up to 270 there"s was over 100 teeth missing and there was no explanation of why they were missing. He was cherry picking his data to favour his study: he was brought up on charges of academic misconduct. He was asked for help, he did not volunteer so he needed to make sure the paper was sufficient. To make it credible they do peer review but there are some limitations to peer review: consumers of research don"t need to believe everything they read. Richard feynman says that you need to criticize your own research. Gained through observation consensus of reality such as science or art. and our own senses (touch) but process of learning what others believe. observations does not always reflect consensus does not necessarily reflect an objective reality.

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