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Help needed: Please take this quick survey: | by subbywan | 2004-04-05 14:33:42 |
| Is this scientist only? |
by AndyA |
2004-04-05 14:58:10 |
Or can we all make up answers?
1: Google.
2: Normally by making up their mind then selecting / skewing facts to match their point of view. Truely objective research and conculsions are very few and far between. An important thing to remember is that scientist are just as human as everyone else.
3: A mess. Explanation: it doesn't matter what I'm going, my worksapce is always a mess.
4: Define scientific work. I'm an engineer so in a way my work is applied science. 90% is implimentation details, 10% is underlying physics. How often do I see work that has been fully researched and worked through using good scientific method? Very very rarely.
5: It depends what their supporting evidence and underlying method is. I will trust their results if the method looks good. I will trust their conclusions if they are a logical extension of the results. I will trust their views if I think they deserve it. Without a huge amount of supporting evidence scientists are no more trustworth than anyone else. A good scientist (and one I am far more willing to trust) will make a clear distinction between logical conclusions and their opinion based on observed facts. They will also be aware of possible flaws in their data and methods.
6: Anyone who wants to. Who does science well is a different matter.
7: Good science proves something. Good technology does something. The two are very different. Along the same lines and engineer want to know how something works, a scientist wants to know why it works.
8: If it proves the opposite of what the people conducting the study set out to try and prove. Failing that other studies supporting the results, a long and detailed list of possible causes of error and estimates of the potential impact they could have on the result and good underlying scientific method. Plus hard numbers based on all the data collected rather than selectivly chosen samples of the data is always nice |
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