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Douglas AtlasDuring the Middle Ages there were all kinds of ideas, e.g. that a piece of of rhinoceros horn increases potency. A method was discovered for separating the ideas which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it.
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David CorkingSo - do Piaget, Papert and Kay really know what they are talking about, or is it more pseudo-science ??
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So I found things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods and mathematics methods, and so forth, but if you notice, you'll see the reading scores keep going down--or hardly going up--in spite of the fact that we continually use these same people to improve the methods. ... I explained to her that it was necessary first to repeat in her laboratory the experiment of the other person--to do it under condition X to see if she could also get result A, and then change to Y and see if A changed. Then she would know the the real difference was the thing she thought she had under control. She was very delighted with this new idea, and went to her professor. And his reply was, no, you cannot do that, because the experiment has already been done and you would be wasting time. This was in about 1947 or so, and it seems to have been the general policy then to not try to repeat psychological experiments, but only to change the conditions and see what happened.
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Tom McLeodIf it's not repeatable, it's not science. And above all, you must not fool yourself.
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Daniel RourkeDuring the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to elimi
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