Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment

by Allan Franklin

Book Overview

Selectivity and Discord addresses the fundamental question of whether there are grounds for belief in experimental results. Specifically, Allan Franklin is concerned with two problems in the use of experimental results in science: selectivity of data or analysis procedures and the resolution of discordant results. By means of detailed case studies of episodes from the history of modern physics, Franklin shows how these problems can be--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822941910
• ISBN13: 9780822941910
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.0"