TY - BOOK ID - 57561376 TI - Understanding and using scientific evidence AU - Gott, Richard AU - Duggan, Sandra PY - 2003 SN - 0761970843 0761970835 1446239454 9786610370559 0857020161 1280370556 1412932211 9781412932219 9780857020161 9781446239452 9780761970835 9780761970842 PB - London Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE DB - UniCat KW - Methods in social research (general) KW - Science KW - Evidence. KW - Proof KW - Belief and doubt KW - Faith KW - Logic KW - Philosophy KW - Truth KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Philosophy. KW - Research KW - Sampling (Statistics) KW - Evaluation. KW - Random sampling KW - Statistics of sampling KW - Statistics KW - Mathematical statistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57561376 AB - This text shows that there are things to understand about scientific evidences: difficult concepts about the structure of experiments; causality; repeatability and the validity and reliability of evidence upon which decisions have to be made. ER -