Greetings Illustrious Progenitors of the CS art,
To continue:
Let us now look at the present development of the Scientific Method in
this year of 2000, 213 years from Director Lavoisier's original statment
of the scientific method in 1787.
Our modern concept is to be found in the "Lincoln Library of Essential
Knowledge", first edition in 1924 and now in it's 43rd edition.
The Scientific Method:
1. Never jump at a conclusion.
2. Never take anything for granted.
3. Never consider your judgement better that your information.
4. Never substitute opinon or long established belief for fact.
5. Never accept a given statment;
A. no matter how plausible
B. no matter how logical it is
C. no matter how good it seems
until it has been proven true by searching tests.
6. Tests must be repeatable by other researchers.
7. Results of tests must be the same and inevitably come to the same
conclusion.
Along with an understanding of the scientific method is a requirement
of the proper "Scientific Attitude". It is the following;
The true scientist:
1. Seeks neither to confirm or refute ancient dogma or current
speculation.
2. Simply reports the tested truth as it is shown to be.
3. Never assumes the role of advocate or special pleader.
4. Never presents strong points on one side while ignoring or
belittling like points on the other side.
5. Understands science is international and universal with no
exceptions for or against any nationality, race or creed
(belief).
Now we all understand that there are many ways of finding out what the
facts are. The simplist being the old "hypothesis, do experiment, and
make another hypothesis". Other ways are inductive reasoning, deductive
reasoning (elementary my dear Watson), various forms of analysis, the
popular double blind study (in the medical field), etc. I read a book
one time with a list of close to a thousand ways to find out data and
facts. The only thing taught in the high schools is the "hypothesis,
experiment, hypothesis" way. No wonder the kids can't think. The
colleges don't do much better in most cases. They are not taught logical
thinking. It would be nice if courses in logical thinking were
mandatory. There are debate clubs which are an excellent venue for
learning logical thinking.
Bless you Bob Lee
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