The Craft of Scientific Research: lecture 3
The craft of Scientific Research focuses on a set of transferable skills that are deemed essential for the practice of scientific research. The first part of three lectures focuses on the fundamental concept of scientific truth and how humanity pursues it: Why do we need to know? What is a model? How do we know? Then we deliver a long list of “how to” lectures: How to choose a research topic, How to write and publish a scientific paper, How to review a paper or a grant, How to give a scientific presentation, How to do research, How to build and run a research group, and How to write a grant application. Grant writing and peer reviewing will also be the subject of two tutorials and two individual projects; their completion will be required to pass the exam. The delivery is hybrid: all frontal teaching will be done online, but the two tutorials require physical attendance.
Lecture 3: How do we know? The foundation of decision-making
In this lecture, we explore how humans make decisions, particularly deciding whether a statement is true or not. After a general philosophical framing, we will focus on the scientific method and show how the two statistical inference theories (frequentist and Bayesian) are the root of profound epistemological differences between social and physical sciences. We translate this reflection on the foundational process of assessing the credibility of predictive models in science from the perspective of physical sciences and from that of medical sciences.
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