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Haven’t you just described a hypothesis? Hypotheses describe what you think will be the outcome of the research based on the researchers’ current observations a
by galacticbang 3y ago
Haven’t you just described a hypothesis? Hypotheses describe what you think will be the outcome of the research based on the researchers’ current observations and understanding of the world.
Scientists aren’t neutral observers standing outside the world. They have inherent biases and those biases shape the research that they conduct. It is both the scientific method and the scientific review process that are supposed to ensure, despite these biases, that the research was sound and the findings valid.
- constantcrying 3y agoNo. Because you have to be agnostic to the truth of the hypothesis. A good experiment does not try to confirm the hypothesis, a good experiment tests the hypothesis. For that it has to be open for disproving the hypothesis. Setting up an experiment with the goal of demonstrating a hypothesis and then doing everything you can to achieve that goal is exactly how the replication crisis happened. That is why p-hacking occurs. Of course scientists are biased, but they need to try to avoid it to do research. Embracing bias, "because everyone is biased" is ridiculous and legitimately insane.