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A 5 page paper defining and discussing the scientific method as defined by the author used as the single source for the paper. The author (Herbert Feigl, 1902-1988) identifies five criteria of the scientific method and examines several misconceptions about its execution. The purpose here is to assess the criteria and respond to three of the misconceptions that the author identifies. The author discussed supports his reasoning well. His arguments defining the scientific method can be applied to valid research of a century ago or to today’s cancer research. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Gould and Mulvaney, 1992) identifies five criteria of the scientific method and examines several misconceptions about its execution. The purpose here is to assess the criteria and respond to
three of the misconceptions that Feigl identifies. Five Criteria Intersubjective Testability Most researchers refer to this criterion as replicatability. If a study
has been done according to sound method and procedure, then any other researcher in any other geographical location should be able to replicate the original researchers results. It is
necessary for the original researcher to control the environment in which s/he undertakes the experimental steps constituting the research effort, and it is necessary that the researcher faithfully and accurately
record and describe every aspect of the environment and conditions under which s/he conducted the study. The ability to replicate a study has
been a hallmark of the value of the work, the degree to which the study qualifies as "real" science. The replicatability requirement strictly applies only to quantitative research methods,
however, those that use components that can be measured, weighed or in some other manner quantified. Qualitative research continues to gain respectability, but
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far less valid than purely quantitative approaches. The
purpose of qualitative research is to assess thoughts, feelings, attitudes and other such non-quantifiable measures. An added factor is that it uses individuals as its sources of data, and
replication is possible only if other researchers use the same sample populations in efforts to replicate any qualitative studies. Intersubjective testability is less important here in terms of replicatability,
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