Science, truth, and honesty

P = passive A = active

Time	Event	Type
0:00	Session start
0:05	Introduce myself, session intro, asking qu.s, limitations of emails	P
0:08	Topics, truth as property of claims	P
0:14	Subjective and objective claims	P
0:16	Cabbage vs. chocolate poll (zoom)	A
0:19	Vague claims are subjective	P
0:21	Objective claims poll (zoom)	A
0:26	Scientific claims … ODATBIF	P
0:48	ACTIVITY 1: Claims	A tot 25
1:12	Reflect on claims activity, take Q & A	A
1:22	Culture of science intro	P
1:24	Stapel, Smeesters	P
1:31	Ap D., Reproducibility project	P
1:41	ACTIVITY 2 Intro: Does it replicate?	P
1:55	Rstudio login note - Scheduled session end
2:00	All over

Poll 2: Subjective versus objective claims

Poll items:

• Too vague: Fried food is bad

• OK, bizarre : There is a tiny dragon inside my laptop

• OK, prosaic: Donald Trump’s IQ is greater than 100

• Simply not objective: I am a very stable genius

Activity 1: Scientific claims

Some examples I came up with:

Developmental - “As a baby, most of my dreams were about my mother” (0/6)

• subjective, descriptive, context-dependent, not measurable, not replicable, not falsifiable

Clinical- “Anxious people should avoid loud noises” (2/6)

• objective, prescriptive, context-indepedent, not fully measurable “anxious people”, prescriptive nature makes it hard to independently replicate, prescriptive nature makes it hard to falsify

Neuroscience - “Any given neuron in this person’s brain is either excitatory or inhibitory, but not both” - - All but appropriately context-independent

Activity 2: Does it replicate?

Some answers for this activity can be found here.