What is the Appeal to Authority?
The belief in something based on the authority of the person without adequate supporting facts
What is an Axiom?
a base statement or an agreed fundamental truth
-allow us to establish a starting point and outline our area of inquiry and helps us develop rational theories and solutions to problems
Science is not a ___ it is a ____
belief system, it is a process
What is science?
physical/intellectual endeavors to determine the reality of the world through repeatable, testable, experimentation, observation and logic
Science is divided into what?
3 subsets
- Natural sciences (physics, chem, geology, bio)
- Social Sciences (economics, human society)
- Formal Sciences (math, stats)
What is research?
- adventure into the unknown
- attempt to describe, discover, understand the universe attempting to define what we know, what we dont know or what we dont even consider what we dont know.
Research is _____ and _____
interative and self correcting
Research circle starts with:
Knowledge to questions to develop theory to Test theory to Analyze results to add to knowledge or question previous knowledge . which either leads back to knowledge or challenging previous ideas
What is thinking?
A complex act composed of knowledge and skills by which the individual can relate to and shape the environment more effectively than with intuition alone
What is critical thinking?
an active and systematic attempt to understand and evaluate arguments and questions
What in inductive reasoning?
induced = persuaded
- Broad Generalizations from observations
- Hypothesis might be correct
ex) water is heavy
What is deductive reasoning?
Deduced= concluded through evidence
- Facts to fact
- Hypothesis must be true
What does critique mean in critical thinking?
a detailed analysis an assesment
What are the three types of research in kinesiology?
Quantitative
Qualitative
Mixed Methods Methods
What is Quantitative research?
- based on measurable, countable, scalable, numbers or data
- investigator tries to minimize bias, make results generalizable
What is Qualitative research?
Measuring and comparing variables that do not have a straight forward numeric interpretation that compares values
- data collection is done in natural settings
- researcher acknowledges that they are inegral with research(harder)
What is the Mixed method research?
combination of both quantitative and qualitative (best of both worlds approach)
What are the 4 Faculty of KNES Research themes?
1) Movement science and musculoskeletal health (biomechanics)
2) Injury prevention, sport medicine, rehab (concussions)
3) Exercise physiology, nutrition in health and sport
4) Psychosocial aspects of health and sport (pedagogy)
What is epistemology?
-the study of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion
Ontology
-the study of being or what kind of things exist
What are 5 characteristics of Research?
systematic, logical, empirical, reductive, replicable
What is the systematic characteristic of research?
-plan, identify, design, collect data, evaluate
What is the logical characteristic?
-based on sound reasoning, one examines procedures to evaluate conclusions
What is the empirical characteristic?
-decisions based on data
