Klaus Stein on Nostr: Science mainly is not about what we know but how we try to figure it out – and how ...

Science mainly is not about what we know but how we try to figure it out – and how to avoid fallacies¹ on the way.²

And why “I did my own research”³ is a red flag and has nothing to do with scientific research.

We fail to teach⁴ all of this in school⁵.

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¹ok, at least how to make it less easy to fall for them and to correct them later
²ok, and how to write the right buzzwords in the right combinations into research proposals and reports to get money for doing research
³watched some tiktok videos where the speaker looked hot and “trustworthy”
⁴this also includes how to read statistics, why correlation is not causation, …
⁵and in “science” shows on TV

#science #education