Questions tagged [scientific-method]

Some programming languages use Duck Typing to determine types of Objects, based on their methods and properties and not their declared type. Simplified, it goes down to the premise "If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be…

If my claim is: There are no purple swans. How should this look like in a null/alternative hypothesis form? Like this? Null: There are purple swans Alternative: There are no purple swans Or like this? Null: There are no purple swans Alternative:…

As a layperson non-specialist I am trying to verify if I understand scientific method. Can someone look at the example I made up and tell me if it fits with scientific method. I'm using this diagram as a basis.…

A scientific method being defined as a method whose rejection of less descriptive hypotheses of experience (acceptance of hypotheses that are 'accurate from more frames of reference') is always and only ever subject to a concordance with…