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Areas of Knowledge (Human Sciences (Problems (Observation (We cannot…

- - - - Natural scientists are concerned with individuals aware of their existence so it is harder to come up with a set of rules to explain the behavior of humans than animals or physical objects
    - - In human sciences the observer and what is being observer are the same - humans - while in natural sciences the observer and what is being observed are different
  - - - the tendency of people to behave differently when they are being observed
      - Covert (the observed individual is unaware he is being observed) vs Overt (the observed individual is aware he is being observed) observations
  - - - WEIRD - Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democracies
  - - - We cannot observe people' s minds
      - Questionnaires might be misleading
      - The observer effect
    - - Moral considerations might limit our willingness to experiment
    - - Social phenomena are hard to measure
    - - Generalizations based on WEIRD samples
- - - - Problems
        
        Observation
        
        Selectivity
        
        Expectations
        
        The observer effect
        
        Hypothesis
        
        Confirmation Bias
        
        Law
        
        Problem with induction
      - Steps
        
        Observation
        
        Experiment
        
        Measurement
        
        Theory
        
        Repeatability
        
        Hypothesis
        
        Law
        
        Induction
    - - Science is determined by falsification of facts
  - - - Vagueness
      - Ad hoc exceptions