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Conducting research involves using the scientific method at its core. Therefore, before any research is undertaken, it is important to be aware of the steps . The research methodology has not come up overnight, but has evolved through hundreds of years of science.
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This statistics tutorial is a guide to help you understand key concepts of statistics and how these concepts relate to the scientific method and research. Scientists frequently use statistics to analyze their results. Why do researchers use statistics? Statistics can help understand a phenomenon by confirming or rejecting a hypothesis. It is vital to how we acquire knowledge to most scientific theories. You don't need to be a scientist though; anyone wanting to learn about how researchers can get help from statistics may want to read this statistics tutorial for the scientific method.Cognitive biases
Welcome to the website of a man who wears more than one hat. One Eliezer Yudkowsky writes about the fine art of human rationality . Over the last few decades, science has found an increasing amount to say about sanity. Probability theory and decision theory give us the formal math; and experimental psychology, particularly the subfield of cognitive biases, has shown us how human beings think in practice. Now the challenge is to apply this knowledge to life – to see the world through that lens.
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions - Lesswrongwiki
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions is probably the most important core sequence in Less Wrong. Posts in the sequence are distributed from 28 Jul 07 to 11 Sep 07. Main sequence Not every belief that we have is directly about sensory experience, but beliefs should pay rent in anticipations of experience. For example, if I believe that "Gravity is 9.8 m/s^2" then I should be able to predict where I'll see the second hand on my watch at the time I hear the crash of a bowling ball dropped off a building.
- Alvarez, C., Does Philosophy improve Critical Thinking Skills? 2007. A meta-analysis of rearch on the effectivity of different methods to develop critical thinking skills. Click here for a map of the conclusions. For the meta-analysis itself click here ( see especially Chapter 5). - Davies, W.M., 'Not quite right' : helping students to make better arguments .
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis , by Richards Heuer. A good overview of how to improve thinking in the light of insights from cognitive psychology. For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture. A shorter version is the art of being right .
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The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. If in your heart you believe you already know, or if in your heart you do not wish to know, then your questioning will be purposeless and your skills without direction. Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer. The glory of glorious mystery is to be solved, after which it ceases to be mystery.
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Wikipedia defines decision analysis as the discipline comprising the philosophy, theory, methodology, and professional practice necessary to address important decisions in a formal manner . Standard decision-making techniques generally involve the following steps: This sounds great in theory, but as Tim van Gelder points out in an article entitled the The Wise Delinquency of Decision Makers , formal methods of decision analysis are not used as often as textbooks and decision-theorists would have us believe.Structured conversations