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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... significance tests . For statisticians do not simply say that a correlation is ' significant ' or ' not significant ' ; rather , they will speak of sig- nificance at a certain level . Those who have any craft skill in the use of such ...
... significance tests . For statisticians do not simply say that a correlation is ' significant ' or ' not significant ' ; rather , they will speak of sig- nificance at a certain level . Those who have any craft skill in the use of such ...
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... significant work was done by ama- teurs . Only in France were the sciences organized in a centralized , hierarchical , State - subsidized community ; and it is significant that after the single generation of the pupils of the great ...
... significant work was done by ama- teurs . Only in France were the sciences organized in a centralized , hierarchical , State - subsidized community ; and it is significant that after the single generation of the pupils of the great ...
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... significant digits ' are a code whose meaning depends on the function of the digits . It is not surprising that ... significant zero - value in a place . The ambiguity is revealed by an expression as 420,000 ; which is the last ...
... significant digits ' are a code whose meaning depends on the function of the digits . It is not surprising that ... significant zero - value in a place . The ambiguity is revealed by an expression as 420,000 ; which is the last ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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