samedi 27 juin 2015

What do you need to critically evaluate *studies*?

Hi.

I am wondering about this. I have seen online posters post things like the comments to this page:

http://ift.tt/1KjRogJ

and there are claims regarding studies, and some studies are cited and they claim a refutation study (which is linked to) is flawed and its data actually "supports" something paranormal. I also find it weird that there are no commenters on the site who posted anything in support of the article's topic.

However, this makes me wonder: what is needed in terms of knowledge, etc. to go about investigating these "study" claims in a critical manner? Considering there are such a huge variety of such claims in the world touching on so many different fields, what exactly does one need to sift the truth and the bs?


via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1GzN46I

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