Assumptions of Science and so on...
I took the following from your Essay Questions Draft, Crystal. Here is my imput...
Assumptions of Science:
(have you seen that so very stupid Capital One commercial with David Spade and his book of like 1001 ways to say "no"? At the end of the commercial when the caller says they are going to call Capital One he yells out "Nanka!" or whatever he says. Well, that commercial finally has a point - and that point is to make it easier for us to remember the Assumptions of Science. I remember that this acronym is for this topic because David Spade has become an ASSumptions of Science. Now, he yells out "Nanka" or whatever, but if you put a little spin on it you might think of it as NANKKW with the W being pronounced like "wha". So here we go:
1. Nature is orderly and regular
2. All natural phenomena have natural causes
3. Nothing is self evident
4. Knowledge is derived from the acquisition of experience
5. Knowledge is superior to ignorance
6. We can know nature
See? NANKKW!
3. Principals of Sci Comm:
Okay, go with me here for a moment. Essentially the Principles of the Scientific Community are things that they look for and "just gotta' have." Kind of like shopping for that perfect outfit. Only in this case we are not shopping, we are not the shopper, we are the SHOPER (I guess we had to "pee" at some point)...
1. Skepticism (for the sake of duplication of results)
2. Humility (scientists are not god and they better damn well know that)
3. Objectivity (intersubjectivity)
4. Parsimony (keep it simple stupid)
5. Ethical Neutrality
6. Relativism
(Now, you had transparency, but I didn't have anything about that. Is it another word for one of those things listed or did I doze off and miss something somewhere?)
Factors affecting Objectivity:
1. Idols of the Tribe
2. Idols of the Cave
3. Idols of the Theater
4. Idols of the Marketplace
(Just remember how Billy Idol put it... "We are only human (Tribe - as humans we want to feel gooooooood) with two eyes (Cave - our view of the world is through the mouth of the cave which is constructed by family socialization - do you need to remember the whole "family socialization thing"? Just think of the first thing you saw with your eyes... mama) and two ears (Theater -
everybody says so, therefore it must be true) and one mouth from which to speak (Marketplace - words, terminology, concepts and their uses) or sing really rockin' songs like "White Wedding") And that's a FACT you cannot OBJECT to my friend!
Discuss assumptions of science and principals of scientific community and factors affecting objectivity.
Assumptions of Science:
(have you seen that so very stupid Capital One commercial with David Spade and his book of like 1001 ways to say "no"? At the end of the commercial when the caller says they are going to call Capital One he yells out "Nanka!" or whatever he says. Well, that commercial finally has a point - and that point is to make it easier for us to remember the Assumptions of Science. I remember that this acronym is for this topic because David Spade has become an ASSumptions of Science. Now, he yells out "Nanka" or whatever, but if you put a little spin on it you might think of it as NANKKW with the W being pronounced like "wha". So here we go:
1. Nature is orderly and regular
2. All natural phenomena have natural causes
3. Nothing is self evident
4. Knowledge is derived from the acquisition of experience
5. Knowledge is superior to ignorance
6. We can know nature
See? NANKKW!
3. Principals of Sci Comm:
Okay, go with me here for a moment. Essentially the Principles of the Scientific Community are things that they look for and "just gotta' have." Kind of like shopping for that perfect outfit. Only in this case we are not shopping, we are not the shopper, we are the SHOPER (I guess we had to "pee" at some point)...
1. Skepticism (for the sake of duplication of results)
2. Humility (scientists are not god and they better damn well know that)
3. Objectivity (intersubjectivity)
4. Parsimony (keep it simple stupid)
5. Ethical Neutrality
6. Relativism
(Now, you had transparency, but I didn't have anything about that. Is it another word for one of those things listed or did I doze off and miss something somewhere?)
Factors affecting Objectivity:
1. Idols of the Tribe
2. Idols of the Cave
3. Idols of the Theater
4. Idols of the Marketplace
(Just remember how Billy Idol put it... "We are only human (Tribe - as humans we want to feel gooooooood) with two eyes (Cave - our view of the world is through the mouth of the cave which is constructed by family socialization - do you need to remember the whole "family socialization thing"? Just think of the first thing you saw with your eyes... mama) and two ears (Theater -
everybody says so, therefore it must be true) and one mouth from which to speak (Marketplace - words, terminology, concepts and their uses) or sing really rockin' songs like "White Wedding") And that's a FACT you cannot OBJECT to my friend!
posted by harvestorm at 6:26 PM
2 Comments:
Helpful, yes, thank you!
The assumptions of science I've got pretty much as "Nature is logical, has causes, and is knowable."
The self-evident, knowing from doing, and knowing better than not are things that if I reword em enough, I'll be able to memorize.
The self-evident one seems to be the one I'm most likely to forget, so I may end up using your acronym (or if I write about forgetting it enough, I won't!) :-) .
The ethical neutrality is throwing me for a loop here.... (transparency was my answer before looking up the answer :-) and was my remembering the need for open books and open results). I threw out the relavitism cause I'm not sure if it's on the list (I've got the same list in 2 places in my notes, and it's on one list but not the other) -- do you have that one?
I'm giggling over your billy idol reference. Thank you! :-)
Okay, when you forget the self-evident, knowing from doing and knowing better than not, just tell yourself that the answers should be obvious and since they are not then nothing is obvious (in other words nothing is self-evident) then kick yourself for forgetting (or not knowing) and realize that knowledge is superior to ignorance and the only way you got that knowledge was from experiencing the trauma of this exam.
Give that a try and see if it works.
Ethical neutrality is much simpler than it sounds. Remember Weber and his belief in "Knowledge for knowledge's sake"? That's all it means. Marx and others disagreed with Weber and thought that knowledge should be used for a purpose, for change. The scientific community still promotes "knowledge for knowledge's sake."
The need for open books and open results fall under Skepticism. Question everything! Therefore the information must be available to be questioned and tested.
Relativism was added by Nigem on his second time through the list. But he presented it like it had been there all along. It just means to be aware that the theories you develop may not hold true or apply in different cultures. It's all relative.
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