Criteria of science

Quality Criteria for Design and Science

This paper discusses the quality criteria that are used in design and science to evaluate the value of the produced knowledge and artifacts. The scientific criteria discussed are: generizability, falsifiability, truth, novelty, parsimony, precision, accuracy and efficiency. Their design counterparts are also discussed. This comparison may help to guide the design method into a more scientific d...

Science as Representation: Flouting the Criteria

Criteria of adequacy for scientific representation of the phenomena pertain to accuracy and truth. But that representation is selective and may require distortion even in the selected parameters; this point is intimately connected with the fact that representation is intentional, and its adequacy relative to its particular purpose. Since observation and measurement are perspectival and the appe...

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen – Health Criteria

Reviewing in science requires quality criteria and professional reviewers.

The use of peers to assess the work of scientists goes back to the 17th century and finally led to what we call peer review (Kronick, 1990) or review by competitors (Roy and Ashburn, 2001). Usually peers are external experts not paid for their assessment. Recent studies of the effectiveness and quality of our current peer review system are not reassuring (Godlee and Jefferson, 1999; Jefferson e...