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The scientific method
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- 1What is "Evidence-based Management"?--> Managers have high risk jobs
--> Evidence helps them to make right choices
--> always ask for evidence if decisions must be made - 2What are the 4 stages of EBM? (Graphic)Gebe den Text hier ein...
- 3What is a proposition?One casual statement linking two constructs
- 4What is theory?- Aggregate of propositions
- Testable through hypotheses
- Based on assumptions - 5What is theory good for?- Helps to understand things
- Allows for predictions in the future - 6How does theory advance?via scientific methods
- 7What are the three core principles of empirical research?- Empiricism (data must be observable)
- Objectivity (data must be testable)
- Control (data must be collected without bias) - 8Where does a theory come from?Deduction (from other theories) and Induction (from empirism)
- 9According to Karl Popper, what is the most important characteristic of a theory?Falsifiability
(which theory is the easiest to test) - 10What are the three characteristics that make theory good?- Falsifiability
- Accuracy
- Parsimony (fewer assumptions necessary) - 11How does the value chain of empirical research look like?- State of current research
- Research design
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Publication - 12What are the general parts of any academic paper?- Abstract
- Introduction
- Theory
- Data & Methods
- Findings
- Conclusion - 13Layout of any acdemic paper introduction1. Who do you want to talk to?
2. What is the best existing explanation to the question you will be asking?
3. What are you promising?
4. What will you argue?
5. What do you do? (data & methods)
6. What do you find?
7. What does it mean?