From the Santa Fe Institute – #research to disprove research.

"Reassessing the scientific method"

'Within the computer program, the scientist-agents conducted a series of experiments, forming and refining theories based on the results...The model revealed that the most informative, predictive scientific results emerged when scientist-agents randomly collected data — not when they selected experiments to confirm, falsify, or resolve disagreement between theories.'

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Reassessing the scientific method

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies scientists consider gold standards for designing experi…

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