Scientific Knowledge and Its Social ProblemsOxford University Press, 1973 - 449 páginas Analyses the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems, and demonstrates the role of choice and value-judgement, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. |
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... judgements may be gained from a consideration of a common and routine pro- cedure in the formation of such judgements : statistical significance tests . For statisticians do not simply say that a correlation is ' significant ' or ' not ...
... judgements may be gained from a consideration of a common and routine pro- cedure in the formation of such judgements : statistical significance tests . For statisticians do not simply say that a correlation is ' significant ' or ' not ...
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... judgements are a very important part of the government of science . These judgements are based on criteria of value which are accepted , usually implicitly , within a field . Work which deals with the objects proper to a particular ...
... judgements are a very important part of the government of science . These judgements are based on criteria of value which are accepted , usually implicitly , within a field . Work which deals with the objects proper to a particular ...
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... judgements and substitute for them a bureaucratic routine would soon produce gross errors of planning from which committed scientists would need to protect their field by clandestine research . For the unknown is full of surprises ; and ...
... judgements and substitute for them a bureaucratic routine would soon produce gross errors of planning from which committed scientists would need to protect their field by clandestine research . For the unknown is full of surprises ; and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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