Reviews for Science of Success (1914)

The average rating for Science of Success (1914) based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-02 00:00:00 Warren Campbell The book entitled "Science with Plants" is en educational book appropriate for grades 3rd-5th, The book highlights the science of plants. If students are interested of how things such as plants grow this is definitely the book. The book begins with the explanation of how plants grow. Plants start off with growing from seeds and later develop into plants. This book details the growing process of various learn how to plants ranging from African Violet, Ivy, Fern etc. The book informs the reader of how to properly take care of seeds step by step until the seed produces a flower or plant. I feel that this book can be used in a literacy stations as well as a mini lesson. I would ask students to name key details about what they read in a text, students will be challenged to recall details in a text such as the steps in order to take care of various plants.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-07 00:00:00 Michael Steinford I read this book at a time when I learned about a major fraud case (Diederek Stapel) that shook up the scientific community recently. Behavioral science, more apt to admit false, gave away a scapegoat revealing that research findings that receive acclaim may be revolving around charismatic figures and established prestige. In the scientific publishing sector, only the research that is decorated with novel ideas and a proven hypothesis receive acceptance. Because that's what sells. The papers that are reviewed and published skew towards research that did not fail - which inherently does not reflect how the world works. Things fail, all the time. So I wasn't surprised that not only behavioral science but also physics show a precedent of massaging raw data to fit research results into Platonic ideals. Going all the way back to Newton, and Millikan. It is daring of Sheldrake to talk about the "intellectual phase-locking" that's been paralyzing true objectivity in modern science, since its dawn. It suggests that empirical science has been establishing "constants" based on faith, not unlike religion. Sheldrake's perspective is vital to level the playground. Cleansing orthodoxy out of scientific practice will create opportunities to tackle tough questions that have been exiled from empirical research. Unexplained phenomena that don’t cease to exist by being ignored may be studied. A few concepts that Sheldrake mentions are for me to dig deeper into: - Vitalism as opposed to mechanism. - Habits as opposed to laws of natural phenomena. - The collective memory of the universe. I will revisit this book for: - its rich bibliography - suggested experiments, particularly those with pets and experimenter expectation effect.