Beschreibung:
This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology, and economics.
1. What is Science? 2. Some Science History 3. Experiment 4. Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing 5. Models and Incentives 6. Social Science 7. Science and AI 8. Science and Diversity 9. Social science: What is the problem? 10. Economics and Equilibria 11. Behavioral Economics 12. Animal Economics 13. The Object of Inquiry Problem 14. Efficient Markets, I 15. Efficient Markets, II Event Studies and the CAPM 16. Summing Up