Teira, David (2016) Debiasing Methods and the Acceptability of Experimental Outcomes. Perspectives on Science, 24 (6). pp. 722-743. ISSN 1063-6145
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Abstract
Why scientists reach an agreement on new experimental methods when there are conflicts of interest about the evidence they yield? I argue that debiasing methods play a crucial role in this consensus, providing a warrant about the impartiality of the outcome regarding the preferences of different parties involved in the experiment. From a contractarian perspective, I contend that an epistemic pre-requisite for scientists to agree on an experimental method is that this latter is neutral regarding their competing interests. I present two medical experiments (on smallpox inoculation and Mesmerism) in which debiasing procedures such as blinding and data tabulation provided warrants of impartiality that made people agree on the experimental design even if they disagreed on the outcome
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| Keywords: | Clinical trials Experiments blinding | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Clinical Trials General Issues > Experimentation Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. David Teira | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2020 19:04 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2020 19:04 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18132 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Perspectives on Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00230 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1162/posc_a_00230 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Clinical Trials General Issues > Experimentation Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 2016 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 722-743 | ||||||
| Volume: | 24 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1063-6145 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18132 |
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