Chapter 3 - Experimental Standards

Question 1

Rule of Parsimony

Answer 1

In science, explanations and experiments should be as simple as possible and not needlessly over complicated.

Question 2

Falsifiability

Answer 2

The requirement that scientific theories must be stated in such a way that they can be tested and disproved if it does happen to be wrong.

Question 3

Critical Theorists

Answer 3

Scholars who use communication in order to help underprivileged people advance and improve society.

Question 4

Ethnography

Answer 4

Method of research in which a researcher immerses themself directly into another culture to study it.