Sean Carroll at Preposterous Universe:
It is a feature of many human activities – sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations – that being able to do them well doesn’t necessarily mean you can accurately describe how to do them well. Science is no different. Many successful scientists are not very good at explaining what goes into successful scientific practice. To understand that, it’s necessary to study science in a scientific fashion. What kinds of scientists, in what kinds of collaborations, using what kinds of techniques, do well? I talk with James Evans, an expert on collective intelligence and the construction of knowledge, about how science really works.
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