Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months agoHow is this incorrect? In which field? And how do confirm you the validity of your methodology?
Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months agoHow is this incorrect? In which field? And how do confirm you the validity of your methodology?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Replication rarely happens and in many cases is outright impossible due to lack of shared code.
Things should be replicable, but that hasn’t been the case for a while.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So then the failure of the scientific method is that people aren’t following it. That’s not so much a problem with the method.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If a method can’t practically be followed it’s a sign of a bad method, or at least one that needs modification.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s not that it can’t practically be followed, it is just that everyone running after H-index or whatever the hot thing is now has resulted in a drop in quality.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It can easily be followed. Just not within capitalism.
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
the correct term you need is ‘unachievable’, not ‘false’.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s just wordplay to make the problem seem like it’s not as big of a problem.
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Common standards for language formally used in a specific profession aren’t “wordplay” lol