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Who are these "objectivists" that you rant about?

As far as I can tell, the likes of positions like the ones you describe are perilously close to straw men.

I frankly don't know many people who think or act like that at all in the SCIENTIFIC fraternity.

Do you? Who are these "objectivists" that you mention?

The test you describe does lack sensitivity (to say the least), but who all do you associate with this particular "objectivist" viewpoint? Who here, more to the point? I haven't seen many of the people that promulgating with that test showing up here. In fact, I don't think I've seen any of them lately.

So who are you reviling? Certainly it's reasonable to complain about bad tests, just as it is reasonable to point out that the usual bench tests are "mostly useless" and that tests that do not handle performance in situ are likewise questionable.

But I haven't seen many people suggest that the usual bench tests have any meaning at all here.

As far as your daughter's science book, I fear that it it's wrong. Observation is indeed very useful and important, but observation is a TOOL, not a part of the method of falsification, confirmation, and repeatability that is the core of the method.

This is like math, also a tool, but not in itself science. Many other tools exist as well, but they generally aren't part of the scientific method, they are TOOLS.
JJ


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