Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
by thephyber on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:48PM
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> The part that the scientific method lacks is determining what a good implementation looks like.
That seems like a feature, not a bug, to me. Descriptions of good implementations are likely subjective and vary based on what is being tested. It may even change over time as human knowledge improves.
It's good principles but really is less a method and more guiding principles.
That is the good and the bad of the scientific method. Implementing any one of the steps poorly and you've got crap studies which technically followed the scientific method but are ultimately "unscientific".
You get into the same sorts of arguments as a result. "Agile is pefect, but scrum sucks" "The scientific method is perfect, but nutrition survey studies suck".
The part that the scientific method lacks is determining what a good implementation looks like.