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> Suggesting a policy prescription in the title of a scientific study puts the legitimacy of the study in complete question. Does it? > The researchers must a
by mcphage 6y ago
> Suggesting a policy prescription in the title of a scientific study puts the legitimacy of the study in complete question.
Does it?
> The researchers must approach the question as one which can be falsifiable, else it's not science.
Isn't that what this study was—they had a hypothesis which they wished to test: "We should do X." Then they did whatever they reported in their paper, and found that their hypothesis was supported by the evidence.
- khawkins 6y agoA policy prescription requires weighing of values, which a scientist should avoid at all costs. It's quite literally the point of science, to understand how the world works without injecting your personal biases about how the world should work.
- mcphage 6y agoThe point of science is, ideas are tested by experiment. If you don't start your experiment with a hypothesis about the way the world works, then you're just p-hacking.