Giving examples, explain how scientific research is not the same as common sense?

Question

Giving examples, explain how scientific research is not the same as common sense?

Answer 1

because common sense includes things like:
"look before you leap" but then also tells you "he who hesitates is lost" - there's a heap of examples such as these. They indicate that what we implicitly see as being true will always be true regardless of the outcome since there's always a little bit of intuition we can call on to explain what has happened. These cannot be refuted.

Contrast this with scientific research which can actually test empirically the effects of one thing on another.

How to think straight about psychology Keith E Stanovich has a great chapter on this and references examples. I'm not gonna type out the chapter but hopefully you can find some of these resources for yourself.

Kohn, A (1990) You know what they say...The truth about popular beliefs. New York Harper Collins. --> another resource which shows how empirical data contradicts common sense

Answer 2

Common sense knowledge involves immediate conclusions that are accepted by (a majority of) people even with the absence of empirical (measurable, recordable, concrete) evidence. They are based on assumptions or predictions that people assume are self-evident, intuitive, or obvious, but don't actually prove.

For example, during Galileo's time, it was common sense to think that the world is flat. After all, just from plain sight of the ordinary person on earth, there is an up and a down, and, people thought, people would "fall" all over the place if the world is rounded, or would fall off the "downward" side of a round world. Of course, scientific research, using careful observations and precise mathematical derivations, has since proven that the world is not flat.

Scientific tests (experiments) are designed with logical premises, specifying conditions or concrete results that have to be observed first in order to "prove" that a conclusion is sound. Science involves proving and falsifying hypotheses and theories that are usually considered tentative until a better explanation that is more supported by experimental evidence, is found. Then, the theory is revised. Common sense is less systematic and does not rely as much on concrete evidence, being more intuitive.

Another example contrasting science and common sense comes from psychological research. Do you believe that only "evil" people like the Nazis could inflict acts that may be considered "cruel"? That you couldn't, for example, electrocute an old man? After all, your common sense would tell you that "I'm a good person" or that "people like me don't do really bad things to people." One experiment illustrates that the instructions of an authority figure (a researcher) and the prestige of an institution (the university) and the belief in a "higher cause" ("for science")
may lead a statistically significant number of ordinary people to deliver shocks to an old man even as he is screaming and begging for them to stop! (of course, the man was in cahoots with the experimenter and was only acting, and the shocks weren't real, but the participants didn't know that). So, cruelty and aggression may be committed by us, given the right circumstances, and our actions are not perfectly determined by our internal characteristics, rather, the influence of the context cannot be ignored.

Just today, some form of intuition/common sense ("fundamental attribution bias") tempts me to conclude that my girlfriend is an "irritable, negative person," whereas science may tell me she is a perfectly nice person who is currently irritable and negative because she is experiencing the effects of the hormonal changes accompanying her monthly period. A form of experiment I can do here is compare her behavior before and after. Haha.

Answer 3

scientific means you have archives which you gathered and you interpret that archives on a chart, like an anova or t attempt, and you tutor magnitude. All of which would be carried out on Microsoft excel. The question you have however asks what the obstacles are of employing online procuring as a fashion of scientific learn. Like how sturdy are the surveys? no longer very. Are human beings actual taking them? no longer many. Are human beings taking them only to get loose stuff and not answering actual? issues like that. My opinion is those are terrible places to pollfor surveys to real scientific archives. stable success.