From a recently published article by Alexandre Krauss:
By using data on all major discoveries in science, including all major discoveries that have or have not won a Nobel Prize, we can address the question of how much “the scientific method” is actually applied to conducting scientific research. revolutionary and whether we should expand this approach. central concept of science. This study reveals that 25% of all discoveries since 1900 did not apply the common scientific method (the three characteristics): 6% of discoveries used no observation, 23% used no experimentation and 17% did not test a hypothesis. Empirical evidence thus challenges the common view of the scientific method.
File under “For methodological pluralism”. Via Zhengdong Wang.
