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Norms
an usual or expected practice, rather like custom
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Universalism
Anyone can come up with an idea and if it's corroborated it should be recognised
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Organised scepticism
Nothing is ever accepted as absolute truth
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Communalism
Everything is shared in an open access community
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Disinterestdness
being impartial in assessing your work as well as everyone else's
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Honesty
don't make stuff up
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Empirical methods
based on first hand experiences of the world
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Empiricism
doctrine that ascribes superior truth-status to things that have been directly observed or manipulated over tings that cannot be observed or manipulated
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Rationality
adherence to a system of reasoning
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Rationalism
faith that rationality is the best guide to decision making
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Statistics and prbability
a combination of empiricist and rationalist ideas
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Uncertainties in research
all researchers engage with the unknown (both friend and foe)
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Distortion
a systematic error with measurement (not random)
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Confusion
Qualitative distortion; confusing one thing for another
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Inaccuracy
- Quantitative distortion; systematic inaccuracy
- eg; over report about ourselves to bolster social desireability
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Incompleteness
Missing or indeterminate information (to do with data analytic techniques)
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Absence
- Missing information
- form of incompleteness
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Uncertainty
- Indeterminate information
- form of incompleteness
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Probability and statistical uncertainty
Likelihood of an event
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Ambiguity
- Multiple possible meanings
- need more information to decide
- nothing to do with stats
- eg; hot food
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Vagueness
- A range of values
- usually on a scale
- nothing to do with stats
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Strategies for managing uncertainty
- Uncertainty can be;
- described
- quantified (sometimes)
- estimated
- manipulated in service of the researcher
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Topical uncertainty
- How the researcher is to describe the object of their investigations (definition)
- eg: What is trust?
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Investigative Uncertainty
- concerns research questions and hypotheses
- eg: Is there a testable hypothesis? Or is the research being done to discover the hypothesis?
- generative vs experimental research
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Methodological uncertainty
- Refers to the design of the study
- eg; will it suit our purposes, answer our questions, test our hypothesis???
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Statistical Uncertainty
Related to the analysis and to some extent the interpretation of data
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Interpretive Uncertainty
despite having good data and sound stats, still not able to decide between competing interpretations
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