Talk:Empirical research

Merge to Empirical method
See Talk:Empirical_method. Any oppositions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuphrer (talk • contribs) 17:45, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Since merged. -- Beland (talk) 22:35, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

hypothesis
The hypothesis provided "People who study a word list while listening to vocal music will remember fewer words on a later memory test than people who study a word list in silence" is less of a hypothesis and more of a prediction. A hypothesis is about understanding the cause while a prediciton is about guessing an outcome. The root hypothesis is that the mental facility for memory is disturbed by background sounds. This can then be tested in different ways such as white noise, noise with words, instrumental sounds. Whether the subject speaks the words while studying. Background noises that interfers with properly hearing the words spoken.

As is says over at Hypothesis, A scientific hypothesis is a proposed explanation of a phenomenon. The simple predicition provided is not a proposed explaination of a phenomenon. It is a prediction of an unobserved phenomenon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.184.76 (talk) 19:20, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Mathematics is non-empirical
Thus, there is an error in the following statement: "By contrast, non-empirical evidence is subjective, depending on the observer." I would also caution against the use of the word subjective here, as it is misleading. All observation is "subjective". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodney.k.b.parker (talk • contribs) 03:54, 23 March 2020 (UTC)