Respect for traditional working methods
I certainly do not want to belittle those who are maintaining traditional working methods.
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Accuracy versus precision
is important to keep in mind the difference between accuracy and precision. Accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to its true value; precision refers…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #measures #science #method
Armchair necessities contradicted by facts
These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #philosophy #method #disorders #evidence
Forget the history and state the facts
My method in philosophy is to try to forget about the history of a problem and the traditional ways of thinking about it and just try to state the facts as…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #method #philosophy #history
Guerilla testing
Guerilla user testing is a low cost method of user testing. The term ‘guerilla’ refers to its ‘out in the wild’ style, in the fact that it can be conducted…
Guerilla Testing — Government Service Design Manual #user-testing #developers #method #persons
Impactful papers need not be heavily cited
our method to assess the contribution of a paper means that a paper with high impact does not need to be extensively cited , however it needs to inspire a…
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles #method #contribution #domain #high-impact #changes #paper
In philosophy there is no escaping history
In philosophy there is no escaping history. Ideally, I sometimes think, I would just like to tell my students the truth about a question and send them home…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #history #philosophy #method