Scientistic method

I’m coining the term “scientistic method” to designate the practices that follow from scientism.

Some of the key characteristics of scientistic method:

  • The belief that objectivity requires suppression of subjectivity.
  • The belief that science is primarily quantitative, and not qualitative.
  • Equating  method with algorithmic processes.
  • Normalizing and enforcing normal discourse.
  • Treating unmeasurables as merely imaginary and unreal (as opposed to realities that might eventually be made measurable).
  • Overemphasis of implications of measurements; underemphasis of choice of what is measured.
  • Exclusion of intuitive leaps from process (as opposed to testing them as a condition for inclusion).
  • Decisions made on basis of quantitative data & argumentation (not hypothesis & experiment).

 

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