Certainty in Science (and why it doesn't exist)
“The Problem with the World Is That Fools & Fanatics Are So Certain of Themselves” Bertrand Russell |
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| Certainty in Science | Link | A related web-page from this site. |
| "I don't 'have' to have an answer | Link | Feynman on YouTube 3 mins |
Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… Explained |
Link | YouTube. 7 mins from It's ok to be smart |
| Regression to the mean | YouTube. 7 mins from Veritasium You need to know about this if you ever want to do a science project which is trying to link two variables |
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| The misconception is partly a result of sloppy science and only serves to dampen public confidence in science | Link | John Oliver Takes on Sloppy State of Science Coverage. YouTube. 20 min. Classic |
Science theories are not wrong, just not yet complete |
Link | The Relativity of Wrong By Isaac Asimov |
| Why do scientists never say, "We have proved that vaccines don't cause autism"? |
Link | We are never 100% certain of anything in science. And that's OK. YouTube. 4 min. From 'The Body of Evidence' |
| 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing | Link | From io9.gizmodo.com |
| 7 misused words in Science | Hypothesis. Theory. Law. Skeptic and a few more courtesy of Scientific American | |
| Uncertainty in Science | From one of my old blogposts | |
| An interesting quote on the subject | Another of my blogposts | |
| Various levels of certainty in the different Science subjects | Cartoon (featured above), courtesy of xkcd | |