From the Santa Fe Institute โ #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 โ not when they selected experiments to confirm, falsify, or resolve disagreement between theories.'
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Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world?ย A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies scientists consider gold standards for designing experiโฆ
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