Models in the Social Sciences

Frederick Betz ()
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Frederick Betz: Portland State University

Chapter Chapter 13 in Managing Science, 2011, pp 295-311 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We ended the last chapter with a strong methodological statement: in science, one can directly measure the properties of a model in experiments. Models rather than theory are directly experimentally validated. Predictions/prescriptions from a model of a natural object can be compared to experiments. Theory is indirectly validated by experiments, through the models which are constructed within the theory. We saw that quantum theory would be indirectly validated through the Bohr model of the atom (from which the empirical formula of Rydberg’s phenomenological law could be directly derived).

Keywords: Natural Object; Topological Graph; British Petroleum; Technology Development Program; Topological Flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7488-4_13

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