Passive Observation In Natural Science

Passive observation is when the observer does not take part in the research, the result does not depend on the observer in any way while active experiment is an experiment done by the person who is influencing the experiment to produce a result. These methods can both produce knowledge, however to what extent is the knowledge being produced true? The knowledge can be considered to be shared knowledge, which everyone believes is somewhat true. On the other hand it could also be personal knowledge which changes depending on the person while shared knowledge is true for all people. Passive observation in natural science and human science use inductive and deductive reasoning but perception makes the knowledge produced not as certain. To test

For these evidences to come about passive observation and active experiment need to do many trials to justify the generalization, which will be the knowledge produced. For active experiment, biology study need to set the same procedure of experiment of rate of reaction and the procedures must not be altered in any circumstances. All the people that repeat this experiments will then add evidence to back up this generalization. Meanwhile for passive observation the evidences will be collected by having a large sample. For example for my Business Internal Assessment, we have to investigate on a restaurant and it’s problems along with solutions. To make a claim about the restaurant, I need at least 30 respondents what the problem of the restaurant is or if it even has any. Here passive observation is working with humans, whom are sometimes biased and vary in attitudes, therefore setting standardized circumstances like active experiment is not possible. What a person can do is to observe all or even more samples to remove bias answers. This therefore shows that inductive reasoning is a way of passive observation and active experiment in production of

Both method of knowledge production must repeat the exact same circumstances and criteria in order for the pool of evidences to be made and therefore a generalization. This therefore means that in reality there is no knowledge that is purely produced, but actually reinvented knowledge is brought back to the person with a new truth. Also, the need of past inductive knowledge to justify that it is indeed not a production of knowledge but a reinvention. The knowledge is reinvented because the previous knowledge was not true, or disregarded as knowledge. For example science has been a revolutionary science that has changed a lot during time, people have realized their previous knowledge was false in many areas when proved wrong. Revolutionary science is rarely happened, but when it does, the changed are major and world-wide. This can therefore conclude that knowledge produced by passive observation and active experiment is not being produced but reinvented to fix the mistakes that have happened in the past that is no longer