20,025
edits
Changes
→Meaning
: There are many different kinds of [[evidence]]:
:*[[Scientific Evidence]] - any [[observation]]s or [[results]] that are [[repeatable]], [[reproducible]] and [[valid]] to prove or disprove a [[hypothesis]].
:**[[Empirical Evidence]] - A type of [[Scientific Evidence]] that relies on an [[experiment]] with tightly [[Control Variable|controlled variables]] which can be [[repeatable|repeated]] to get the same [[results]] and [[reproducible|reproduced]] by others to get the same [[results]].:**[[Observational Evidence]] - A type of [[Scientific Evidence]] that relies on [[observation]]s which an without the ability to [[Control Variable|control variables]] but can be [[repeatable|repeated]] to get the same [[results]] and [[reproducible|reproduced]] by others to get the same [[results]].
:**[[Double Blind Trial]] - a [[Clinical Trial|clinical trial]] to test the effect of a [[medicine]] on a human in which the researcher and the participant don't know if they have been given a real [[medicine]] or a [[placebo]].
:*Non-scientific Evidence - [[Evidence]] which can be [[repeatable|repeated]] or [[reproducible|reproduced]].