Do tell. Where and how did you “learn science” this way?
Throughout elementary and middle school (early education here in the US) through textbooks with diagrams like this
What is the “basic concept”?
That experiments can give you mostly non-subjective data about one experiment, but to draw broader conclusions about how the world works you have to combine the data from many experiments into a subjective estimate about how likely a hypothesis is.
That does not strike me as an adequate basis for deciding what science is or is not.
Words mean different things to different people… as I said, I’m not interested in arguing over the “proper” definition of this word. I’m interested in clarifying the process through which experiments lead to new knowledge about the world. You can call this process “not science” and I won’t argue—it’s not an interesting argument to me.
So, are you saying that the outcome of science is a set of subjective estimates that most people agree with?
I’m not sure… what do you mean by “the outcome of science?”
Do tell. Where and how did you “learn science” this way?
What is the “basic concept”?
Throughout elementary and middle school (early education here in the US) through textbooks with diagrams like this
That experiments can give you mostly non-subjective data about one experiment, but to draw broader conclusions about how the world works you have to combine the data from many experiments into a subjective estimate about how likely a hypothesis is.
That does not strike me as an adequate basis for deciding what science is or is not.
So, are you saying that the outcome of science is a set of subjective estimates that most people agree with?
Words mean different things to different people… as I said, I’m not interested in arguing over the “proper” definition of this word. I’m interested in clarifying the process through which experiments lead to new knowledge about the world. You can call this process “not science” and I won’t argue—it’s not an interesting argument to me.
I’m not sure… what do you mean by “the outcome of science?”