Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)

How can we best learn about the world? A new paper by SFI's Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) and coauthors applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that scientists consider gold standards for designing experiments could perform worse than random choice.

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Reassessing the scientific method Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ... https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/reassessing-the-scientific-method