Ricardo De la Peña

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What hypotheses about the origin of climate change have more scientific basis?

Is too obvious to say that the weather changes over time. In fact, the thesis of climate change has consensus within the scientific community, as far as I understand. However, there are several...

06 June 2016 813 17 View

There are scientific laws in social sciences?

Is it possible to talk about something that, besides being a law statement indeed, constitute a law in scientific terms within the field of social sciences?

05 May 2016 3,182 94 View

There is a morality in the minds of domestic dogs?

When a dog playing with a human, another dog and even cats, establishes rules, physical boundaries and spaces for the development of the activity, which seem to assume it should not cause harm to...

05 May 2016 2,948 24 View

Which is better: stratification prior or subsequent in a survey?

It's common for marketers insist on a stratified sample design to ensure adequate representation of the relevant segments for analysis, even when it would lead to a rift with random methods. Some...

04 April 2016 5,147 7 View

How should regulate the publication of negative results of an experiment?

How should regulate the publication of negative results of an experiment?It is feasible to do so? How to set it? What kind of regulations would be required? This decision must be sponsor of an...

04 April 2016 281 23 View

What should be the responsibility of the scientist for a wrong forcast made public?

Sometimes scientists have to make known their forecasts and the occurrence or not of the predicted events can have an impact on the lives of people affected by filing in geographic space and time...

04 April 2016 4,178 11 View

Numbers really exist?

In what sense numbers exist, if any? They were there and simply discover? Were there no matter if we thought of them? Some say that the numbers are entities that are in the real world, though not...

04 April 2016 8,173 59 View

There is something before the big bang?

There is a very heated debate about whether the big bang is a logical limit exist or is relevant to postulate a before the big bang. What is the current status of this debate. Should we believe...

04 April 2016 7,009 0 View

It is necessary that all probabilities are given for something to be real?

The philosopher David Lewis takes us to a vision in which to solve central problems of metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind, all possible worlds have to be and are and where for...

04 April 2016 987 28 View