SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND PSEUDOSCIENCE CLAIM

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SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND PSEUDOSCIENCE CLAIM

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Write an essay focusing on the scientific principles and pseudoscience claims

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The researcher also tends to depend on the personal testimonials given by the participants. With regards to Lilienfeld et al. (2016), this may be referred to as overreliance on anecdotes. The researcher clearly indicates that her research fully depended on the feedback received from the participants which in this case may be biased. Testimonials from some individuals may fail to inform on the relationship between cause and effect as they are hard to verify and generalize (Fortune, 2016, September). The Doctor’s conclusions seem to be one-sided as she based her findings on the feedback received from the individuals who ate Timbits as food-rewards ignoring those who did not. There is no scientific research conducted to determine the truth in this claim as the feedback used to ascertain them is unrepresentative. The researcher relies on feedback from participants who received food rewards only. It is hard to verify whether the participants who received food rewards indeed engaged in longer yoga classes compared to those who did not. Eventually, the researcher may need to conduct scientific tests and come up with a hypothesis that can be explained and confirmed. Thus, this research description may have to be categorized as a pseudoscientific claim until additional research is conducted.

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