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Lecture 1 - Setting The Scene
Lecture 1 - Setting The Scene
Scientific inquiry
The sum of what we know
Systematic
Into a problem
Objective
Critical
What is knowledge?
An organized, systematic, databased, critical, objective, scientific
inquiry into a specific problem,
undertaken with the purpose of
finding answers or solutions to it.
Organized
Are certain
outcomes
(politically)
desirable?
Methodology: replicable
Permission from
respondents or their
parents
Full disclosure on
methods, data, and
results
Confidentiality and privacy of
respondents
Non-significant results,
contradictory results,
and illogical results
Experiment: afterwards
A clearly
delineated
(beschrieben /
skizziert) problem
statement
Time Management
Group work
Deadlines
Cases (input interactive lectures)
plus reading (book) chapters