Have you ever heard of someone who says they can predict the future? Perhaps you’ve seen magazine articles in which someone claims to have predicted some famous event. The so-called Mayan calendar predicted the ed of the world in 2012, and Nostradamus comes to mind as someone who made a lot of predictions.
What makes for a good predication and how are predictions made by scientists different than those made by Nostradamus? Put a new name in your vocabulary: Karl Popper. Find out in what I think will be an interesting exploration into your mind…
A Simple Psychological Experiment | The Psych Files
February 11, 2007[…] Check out episode 3 in which I discuss hypotheses and Popper’s important concept of falsifiability. […]