Assignment
Questions to Ponder Why Should We Believe Scientists
1. For most people how is their relationship with science like faith include how they approach science? Hint do they have enough background to understand the processes? What was Pascal's wager?
2. What does the speaker call the textbook scientific method? Discuss the steps. What example did she use? Describe example thoroughly?
3. What is the "fallacy of affirming the consequences'? What example did she use? Describe example thoroughly.
4. What are auxiliary assumptions? What example did she use? What were the incorrect auxiliary assumptions that were made?Describe example thoroughly.
5. Sometimes science just doesn't fit the text book model. What is another way that science is done? And what examples did she use for this? Describe example thoroughly.
6. The question in science is sometimes "how do things work". What technique did she talk about for answering these questions and what two examples did she use? Describe examples thoroughly. What kinds of studies do computer studies allow us to do that we couldn't do without them.
7. So what is the process by which scientific work become accepted?Describe the process of getting work publishedin detail.
What persons are involved in the decision to publish a paper?
What about the paper makes them decide to publish it or not?
What did she call the way scientists judge other scientists' work?
8. On whom is the burden of proof for new ideas?
Is it hard to get scientists to accept new ideas and is this a good thing?
What did she mean by organized scepticism? Consensus of experts?
How did she liken this process to a jury trial?
9. Why is the appeal to authority of science not the same as the fallacy of appeal to authority such as a single person, dictator or expert? Hint: consensus of experts.
10. Ultimately what is science based on that makes it so reliable?Use theexample of the automobile industry.
What did she say must happen for people's belief in science to be improved?
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