Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology, and economics.

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Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology, and economics.

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Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

by John Staddon
Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

by John Staddon

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Overview

This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology, and economics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032683898
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/07/2024
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Emeritus at Duke University. He does research on adaptive behavior, economics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

1. Basic Science 2. Experiment 3. Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing 4. Social Science: Psychology 5. Social Science: Economics 6. Behavioral Economics 7. ‘Efficient’ Markets 8. Summing Up

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