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).