: True or false: one of the major differences from the hard sciences is the scientific method cannot be utilised in the humanities. View
: True or False: Police work often uses evidence to confirm what the police already suspect to be true, rather than to uncover a culprit by starting from scratch. View
: Statistics can sometimes produce misleading conclusions. A turkey is fed every day for a thousand days by a butcher. Each day strengthens the turkey’s belief, with increasing statistical confidence, that butchers love turkeys. Then the turkey is killed, sold, and eaten. This is known as a: View
: True or False: One of the biggest obstacles to prediction in statistics is human behaviour is not always what we would consider rational. View
: In one sense the Scientific Method and the Engineering Process are at odds with each other because one struggles to give an answer in the affirmative and the other demands it. Why? View
: The scientific method is only useful for solving problems in complex physical systems, while complex adaptive systems are too complex. View