Just watch them seethe under this post and try to redefine science in a way that excludes science itself.
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>null hypothesis is that which we assume to be trueDo scicucks really
>>17078412>null hypothesis only scicucks use this concept
>>17078391Are we back
>>17078391Go ahead and spell out the point you really want to make, OP.
>>17078391What makes me seethe about this image is the state machine representing the scientific method is not depicted as an infinite loop as it should be, the Communicate results state should loop back to either Ask a question or Test hypothesis with an experiment.
>>17078430So OP shouldn't have assumed snarky NPCs like you have enough personal agency to think of a question to ask instead of just making baseless insults derived from the status quo to spike your dopamine?
>>17078561The loop back isn't inherent to the scientific method. Once you've communicated your results, you have successfully "completed" the scientific method. Nothing demands that your communicated results raise further questions or introduces a new hypothesis. The "ask a question" step implicitly includes questions about previous findings as well as questions raised in interacting with the natural world.This "loop" bs is a modern addon designed to give "perspective" or whatever.
>>17078391It's just the knowledge creation myth of our time. Non-bicameral people can't create knowledge, all they know has been learned from other people. This necessary raises the question where all that knowledge came from in the first place. The answer was "it was revealed to the prophets by God." in the middle ages, today it's the scientific method.
>>17078580>The loop back isn't inherent to the scientific methodYes it is.>you have successfully "completed" the scientific method. No, you have successfully "contributed" to the process, but other people will still ask questions and have the ability to improve upon your theory by imagining new experiments.> Nothing demands that your communicated results raise further questions or introduces a new hypothesis. If you are not allowing feedback and just blurting out your results without allowing critique, its just reporting results not communicating.>The "ask a question" step implicitly includes questions about previous findingsWhich is exactly why it needs to be a loop instead of just a single iteration, you can't really ask questions or research the topic if nothing came before.>This "loop" bs is a modern addon designed to give "perspective" or whatever.No, it is to acknowledge that the scientific process started in the middle of some other natural process and your contributions to science started in the middle of the scientific process, so neither your contributions nor the scientific process exists in isolation.
The plural of hypothesis is hypotheses, fucking idiot.
>>17078585Ignoring the strawmen in your post:The scientific method is best understood as a gold-standard for contributing to the body of scientific knowledge. Nearly every scientific paper you will ever read will, almost explicitly, walk you through it from beginning to end. They are designed this way deliberately.>introduction"Here's the observation we made, the question(s) we asked, the research which validates our question as meaningful, and what we suspect the answer(s) is.">methodology"Here's the experiment we developed to test if our suspicions match reality and here's how that went when we tried to implement it.">conclusion"Here's what we believe we can conclude from the data we gathered from the aforementioned experiment"There is a clear start and end point. Most papers are designed, as I said, to be a deliberate walk through the scientific method from start to finish. They do often invite further research in the "discussion" section, but this is also where disclosure of potential experimental design flaws and limitations go.Once you have communicated your results by publishing, assuming you followed all the prior steps correctly, you have "completed" the scientific method with regard to the initial observation that inspired the paper in the first place.
>>17078605>Nearly every scientific paper you will ever read will, almost explicitly, walk you through it from beginning to end.No, they won't walk you through THE beginning nor THE end, they will generally include citations to previous papers that inspired or informed their study and the conclusion will lead up to calls for follow-ups, cohorts, and suggestions of future studies and analytical statistical analysis to further test and validate the theory.>They do often invite further research in the "discussion" sectionConcession accepted.>you have "completed" the scientific method No, you have "complete" your study and hopefully got it to a point of rigor that future scientists can use it for their studies into the theory.>with regard to the initial observation that inspired the paper in the first place.Yes and your observations are just the next iteration's topic of research because the loop continues indefinitely.
>>17078612Refer to the core thesis here: >The scientific method is best understood as a gold-standard for contributing to the body of scientific knowledgeThe contribution you are making at the present moment does have a discrete beginning and end. The scientific method is an instruction set. It's not some grand principle floating out in the ether. That grand principle would be the philosophy of scientific inquiry as a whole, which encompasses far more than just the scientific method.>Concession acceptedGood. I conceded your strongest point and still showed your core premise to be flawed.
>>17078605>>17078612>>17078617Scientific papres are written, cited, but almost never read. It seems to me that most oeople only read (and cite!) the introduction, and maybe the discussion sections, which are not the important parts. The important parts are the method and the results.
>>17078391https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method>The term scientific method came into popular use in the twentieth century; Dewey's 1910 book, How We Think, inspired popular guidelines.[35] It appeared in dictionaries and science textbooks, although there was little consensus on its meaning.[33] Although there was growth through the middle of the twentieth century,[g] by the 1960s and 1970s numerous influential philosophers of science such as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend had questioned the universality of the "scientific method", and largely replaced the notionlol
>>17078617>The contribution you are making at the present moment does have a discrete beginning and end.As does each step, but the method is not "completed", only the steps are completed and the whole point of communicating your personal progress is so the next people can use it as research vectors.>The scientific method is an instruction set. Yes an instruction set nested in an infinite loop of scientific progress. >It's not some grand principle floating out in the ether. Knowledge is the grand principle, the scientific method is a specific method of collecting and generating knowledge. >your core premise to be flawedNo, you saw my strong point and admitted that your flawed core premise that a single study's conclusion somehow "completes" the scientific method was wrong since the conclusion section is generally followed by a further discussion or call for follow-up section.
>>17078619It is pretty funny how long it takes popular use to catch up to practice and how philosopher will squabble over anything and even question the universality of their own questioning if they run out of things to question.
>>17078621>nu-/sci/ is defending cold war era American pop science slop
>>17078622>retard is defending the institutionalized post empirical pop scientific era that hasn't actually produced anything of its own and has just been coasting off of the tech, theories, and algorithms invented, validated and generated in the cold war era.
>>17078629I'm not reading/discussing the impotent screeching of a pop sci fan. I just thought it was funny how much faith you put in a construct made up by American pop science writers that got promptly BTFO as soon as it acquired an agreed upon meaning.
>>17078619>The term scientific method came into popular use in the twentieth century; Dewey's 1910 book, How We Think, inspired popular guidelines.holy mother of reddit. that's actually in the article
>>17078620>the whole point of communicating your personal progress is so the next people can use it as research vectors.I would take ussue with saying it's the "whole point," but interpreting hyperbole as hyperbole then this isn't a point of contention. What I said was: >Nothing demands that your communicated results raise further questions or introduces a new hypothesis.You responded to this with a strawman about rejecting critique. My point was that if a conclusion doesn't raise new questions, that doesn't mean it's not the result of the scientific method.>an instruction set nested in an infinite loop of scientific progress.The loop isn't closed though. Many scientific questions begin with an observation in the natural world rather than the prior findings of others. And many scientific conclusions more or less die on the vine, only to be cited performatively rather than actually informing any future discoveries. >the scientific method is a specific method of collecting and generating knowledge.Correct. And when someone follows it, they do so from beginning to end. >the conclusion section is generally followed by a further discussion or call for follow-up section.Generally being the important term here. And you miss the point entirely. There is a generalized process to baking cakes. Just because you conclude your documentation of baking your cake with a call for others to contribute their own cake baking recipes that your cake inspired does not imply cake baking is inherently some recursive loop.
Mandatory Threadly Reminder:The brainlets who keep namedropping the Scientific Method(tm) invariably mean some variation of OP's pic. The problem with that pic (and variants thereof) is that it covers, at best, the discovery of empirical laws. A scientific theory is not a collection of empirical laws. A scientic theory unifies an assortment of empirical laws by working backwards towards a set of axioms that logically implies them. That process it not empirical. It's driven by factors like intuition and philosophical/aesthetic preferences and there's no method for it. It's an underdetermined problem in principle.Once you have a theory, you have to test it empirically, but that's only the last step and least of the scientific thinking that went into deriving the theory in the first place. And it doesn't even fit the picture because the hypothesis is logically derived from the framework's premises, not inductively inferred from observations.
>>17078631And I know you are retarded for taking "came into popular use" to mean that is when it was invented and who invented it and to take two contrarian philosophers questioning its universality to mean that the entire scientific community discarded the method.
>>17078635I'm not reading/discussing the impotent screeching of a pop sci fan. I just thought it was funny how much faith you put in a construct made up by American pop science writers that got promptly BTFO as soon as it acquired an agreed upon meaning.
>>17078636Yes being functionally illiterate and not actually reading seems to be the backbone of your opinion on the matter and I am sure you will prove it by copypasting the same thing instead of proving you can form thoughts and respond to what has been written.
>>17078638I'm not reading/discussing the impotent screeching of a pop sci fan. I just thought it was funny how much faith you put in a construct made up by American pop science writers that got promptly BTFO as soon as it acquired an agreed upon meaning.Protip: nothing you shit out is being read by anyone.Protip #2: you're nonsentient so you WILL reply again with fresh mumbling.
>>17078631>as soon as60+ years later by a completely different generations of philosophers rather than scientists and you obviously won't post the actual arguments because they aren't very convincing and you can't post any evidence because there is none given its just some philosophers' crackpot ideas that were never widely adopted given scientists still used the scientific method over the next century later, but I will wait for you to prove me right yet again and copypaste your saved little meme about your basic illiteracy and solipstry again.
>>17078641I'm not reading/discussing the impotent screeching of a pop sci fan. I just thought it was funny how much faith you put in a construct made up by American pop science writers that got promptly BTFO as soon as it acquired an agreed upon meaning.Protip: nothing you shit out is being read by anyone.Protip #2: you're nonsentient so you WILL reply again with fresh mumbling.
>>17078641The dude's obviously not interested in talking to you. Just stop engaging.
>>17078644You didn't read this though, he clearly said nobody is reading it, so you can't possibly be reading it. Now that I have systematically dismantled all his false claims and trapped him in his in his little copypasta loop, there is nothing left to engage with anyway and since this is on an anonymous board, I was never even engaging with "him" in the first place, I was engaging with retarded ideas that have been completely logically refuted to the point he is completely mindbroken and trapped in his little thought loop.
All I did was to quote the wikipedia article on the """scientific method""". Why is this making pop-sci retards lose their minds with rage?
>>17078647You're entirely too invested in this.
>>17078649I won this formal debate, samefag. You're obviously projecting. I've successfully refuted all the points you made. Everyone who is watching us knows I have defeated you and successfully the Scientific Method from yet another philosofag attack.
>>17078648>All I did was to quote the wikipedia articleAs long as you aren't the retard that keeps misrepresenting the quote, they aren't "losing their mind" at you, they are losing it at the retard who can't accurately interpret a fairly simple quote because they are esls that don't understand terms like "came into popular use" or "questioned the universality".
>>17078651>impotent seething continuesReminder:>The term scientific method came into popular use in the twentieth century; Dewey's 1910 book, How We Think, inspired popular guidelines.[35] It appeared in dictionaries and science textbooks, although there was little consensus on its meaning.[33] Although there was growth through the middle of the twentieth century,[g] by the 1960s and 1970s numerous influential philosophers of science such as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend had questioned the universality of the "scientific method", and largely replaced the notion
>>17078650I'm not the Wikipedia quote guy. I'm the one that was making the point earlier about the scientific method not needing the loop back step. I'm just giving you the age-old advice to not feed trolls.
>>17078633>I would take ussue with saying it's the "whole point,"Then should take issue with the last step being about communication if you don't think the whole point is to find things worth communicating.>My point was that if a conclusion doesn't raise new questionIf it doesn't raise new questions and can't be a new application to anything that needs to be reexamined, then it didn't answer anything in the first place and it has no utility.>The loop isn't closed though. My point was that OP's image isn't a loop at all when it should be, where would you loop to then if you now concede that it is definitely a loop?> they do so from beginning to end. No, they continue something that someone else began and they draw conclusion that can begin some other line of inquiry.>Generally being the important term here. Yes because papers are generally scientific instead of pseudoscientific.>There is a generalized process to baking cakes.This isn't just baking cakes, this is finding ingredients, the experiment itself is more like the cake, the scientific method is the baking process which is an infinite loop if you plan to keep passing down knowledge of various cakes and how they are made.
>>17078650>Everyone who is watching usEveryone watching knows you are a retard who just repeated the same copypasta over and over about how you know for certain nobody else is watching.
>>17078654That wasn't me, that was the agrobot declaring premature victory.
