Replicability and Falsifiability (features of science)

Question 1

What is replicability?

Answer 1

the ability to carry out the method of a study at another time

Question 2

What does replicability involve?

Answer 2

repeating the procedure of a study at another time and obtaining
similar results.

Question 3

why is being able to replicate a study an important feature of science?

Answer 3

-it provides a way to check and verify scientific information.
-A high level of consistency in the findings means that researchers and those reading the research, can be confident that the findings are really what the researcher said they were.

Question 4

what must researchers do to achieve replicability?

Answer 4

-Researchers need to record their methodology carefully so that the same standardised procedures can be repeated easily.
-This would also require accurately operationalising variables and measurement systems.

Question 5

How are reliability and replicability different?

Answer 5

Having a replicable (repeatable) method enables findings to be checked for reliability (consistency).

Question 6

What may unreliable findings imply?

Answer 6

flaws or a lack of contort within the method and would therefore be of limited use in theory construction

Question 7

what does falsifiability refer to?

Answer 7

being able to prove a theory wrong

Question 8

what is a null hypothesis?

Answer 8

a testable statement that refutes the theory being tested

Question 9

Why is it necessary to include a null hypothesis in any scientific study?

Answer 9

-As part of deductive reasoning, this would then lead to the theory either being modified or rejected.
-The improved theory would then be retested using the same methodology.