Scientific reasoning
Science is not a body of facts but a way of testing claims that takes human fallibility seriously. This course covers how that machinery works and where it strains.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01The methodGuess, predict, test, revise.
- 02Designing an experimentControls, randomisation and blinding.
- 03When you cannot experimentObservational evidence.
- 04MeasurementGetting numbers that mean something.
- 05Reading a resultSignificance, size and uncertainty.
- 06Hypotheses, theories and lawsWords that cause arguments.
- 07How science is publishedFilters, incentives and their failures.
- 08ReplicationThe crisis and what it taught.
- 09Telling it apartSignals of unreliable claims.
- 10Using it yourselfBeyond the laboratory.
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