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> There is the old scientific method which was falsifiable, repeatable, frequentist, and it involved directly observable quantities. > ... > There is now the
by 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?