In many scientific fields, sparseness and indirectness of empirical evidence pose fundamental challenges to theory development. Theories of the evolution of human cognition provide a guiding example, where the targets of study are evolutionary processes that occurred in the ancestors of present-day ...
Like the female clock or the 10,000 steps, many health beliefs have shallow and flimsy roots. But sometimes the wisdom of the crowd is supported by facts: most of us do need around eight hours of sleep a night, for instance. So where does this leave someone trying to make sense of wh...
as well as to prevent the influence of prior knowledge and beliefs on experiments’ results, the clinical context, the classification task, the artificial intelligence system, its recommendations and its bias, the tissue sample images, the patients and syndromes used in these experiments, were all ...
Feyerabend (1993) famously challenged the idea of a uniform method of inquiry claiming that “anything goes” in science: science’s ways of inquiring into nature were so ingenuous and idiosyncratic that they defied a generalizing description. This seems to be supported by Kuhn’s (1962b) ...
Misinformation harms society by affecting citizens' beliefs and behaviour. Recent research has shown that partisanship and cognitive reflection (i.e. engaging in analytical thinking) play key roles in the acceptance of misinformation. However, the relati
"The original definition of skeptic was a person who questions ALL beliefs, facts, and points-of-view. A healthy perspective in my opinion. Today's common definition of skeptic is someone who questions any belief that strays outside of the status quo, yet leaving the status quo itself ...
It is thus important to distinguish between vulnerability papers demonstrating specific exploits enabled by implementation errors, and papers showing entirely new classes of attacks, triggering a revisiting of beliefs and understandings, and a rethinking of architectures and defenses. For example, it was...
In the 1850's when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch created the science of microbiology and the "germ theory" of disease Dr Semmelwis's theory finally was proven scientifically. Now there was a mechanism and they were able to create experiments to prove that mechanism. My point is, that it ...
which may propagate unverified information2. People on social media also tend to have ideologically segregated friend groups that match the given user worldview and are much more likely to believe and share content fitting their beliefs4,14. All of this may lead to the ’echo chamber’ effect....
show as much decrease in paranormal beliefs as less religious students. In addition, students who were not religious would show low paranormal beliefs before class and would maintain those low beliefs during the course. Finally, following previous literature, it was expected that students scoring ...