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  2. Evidence - Wikipedia

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    In the sciences, evidence is understood as what confirms or disconfirms scientific hypotheses. [7] [8] The term "confirmation" is sometimes used synonymously with that of "evidential support". [14] Measurements of Mercury's "anomalous" orbit, for example, are seen as evidence that confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity.

  3. Empirical evidence - Wikipedia

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    Empirical evidence is evidence obtained through sense experience or experimental procedure. It is of central importance to the sciences and plays a role in various other fields, like epistemology and law. There is no general agreement on how the terms evidence and empirical are to be defined. Often different fields work with quite different ...

  4. Wikipedia:Qualify evidence - Wikipedia

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    For example, link to levels of evidence, explain the strengths and weaknesses of a certain type of evidence, or quantify how likely something is to pan out (e.g. how many drug candidates become approved drugs, or how many psychology studies fail attempted replication). Remove sources that turn out to be unreliable.

  5. Scientific evidence - Wikipedia

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    Scientific evidence is evidence that serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis, [1] although scientists also use evidence in other ways, such as when applying theories to practical problems. [2] Such evidence is expected to be empirical evidence and interpretable in accordance with the scientific method.

  6. Evidentiality - Wikipedia

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    come- PAST gel-di come-PAST "came" gel-miş come- INDIR. PAST gel-miş come- INDIR.PAST "obviously came, came (as far as understood)" In the word geldi, the unmarked suffix -di indicates past tense. In the second word gelmiş, the suffix -miş also indicates past tense but indirectly. It may be translated into English with the added phrases 'obviously', 'apparently' or 'as far as I understand ...

  7. Human science - Wikipedia

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    Human science is an objective, informed critique of human existence and how it relates to reality.Underlying human science is the relationship between various humanistic modes of inquiry within fields such as history, sociology, folkloristics, anthropology, and economics and advances in such things as genetics, evolutionary biology, and the ...

  8. Empirical research - Wikipedia

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    Empirical evidence (the record of one's direct observations or experiences) can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively. Quantifying the evidence or making sense of it in qualitative form, a researcher can answer empirical questions, which should be clearly defined and answerable with the evidence collected (usually called data). Research ...

  9. Evidence-based practice - Wikipedia

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    Evidence-based education (EBE), also known as evidence-based interventions, is a model in which policy-makers and educators use empirical evidence to make informed decisions about education interventions (policies, practices, and programs). [27] In other words, decisions are based on scientific evidence rather than opinion.