What Makes a Good Experiment?: Reasons and Roles in Science

by Allan Franklin

What makes a good experiment? Although experimental evidence plays an essential role in science, as Franklin argues, there is no algorithm or simple set of criteria for ranking or evaluating good experiments, and therefore no definitive answer to the question. Experiments can, in fact, be good in any number of ways: conceptually good, methodologically good, technically good, and pedagogically important. And perfection is not a requirement: even experiments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822944413
• ISBN13: 9780822944416
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"