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What is Good Science?4) Science generally uses the formulation of falsifiable hypotheses developed via systematic empiricism. Hypotheses that cannot ever be disproven are not real science. Hypotheses are generally formed by observing whatever it is you are studying, with the objective of understanding the nature of the subject (this is systematic empiricism). Many scientists hold the belief that a hypothesis cannot ever be proven, only disproven. This especially holds in historical sciences like paleontology, where a time machine would be the only true way to prove a hypothesis.
All scientific models must be testable and falsifiable. In other words even the best and most elegant scientific models must be subject to being proven wrong by experimental or observational data.
Scientists use the model to make very specific predictions about what should happen in a certain situation and perform experiments or observations to test the prediction. If the experiment or observation agrees with the model’s prediction, then the model passed the test. Scientists will tentatively accept the model as being correct but continue to test the model.
What is Science?
The key distinguishing feature of science is falsifiability. All good science is subject to being falsified, or proven to be false, by experimental data or observations. Anything that can not be tested and subjected to the possibility of being proven wrong is not science.
He's the guy with the penguins, right?
Actually it was black swans...He's the guy with the penguins, right?
omygosh I want to pet them.But I suppose white penguins would have worked just as well.
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I think others provided good resources.Talk me about falsifiability
I´ve seen it in wiki, but I would like to know how deep inrooted is it in scientific method and how unanimous or not is it in science that falsifiability is a need for something to be science.
I think that´s all