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The New Scientific Method

• jlelonm 6y ago
  > There is the old scientific method which was falsifiable, repeatable, frequentist, and it involved directly observable quantities. > ... > There is now the new scientific method which involves models, paradigm shifts, bayesianism, and it may not require a control variable when measurements are constructed from multiple, indirect observations. This doesn't make much sense to me. How can there be a new scientific method? Shouldn't these somehow boil down to the same thing: hypothesis, experiment, evidence against the null?