Features of Science

• Paradigm


  Shared assumptions and agreed methods within scientific discipline
• Paradigm Shift 


  A change in the dominant unifying theory within scientific discipline
• Objectivity 


  All sources of personal bias are minimised so as not to distort the research process
• Empirical 


  Gathering of evidence through direct observations and experience
• replicability 


  repeating scientific procedures to test the validity of findings
• falsifiability 


  we can only demonstrate the truth of a science principle by demonstrating is it untrue