The empirics practiced the “medical art” without relying on reasoning; they wanted to benefit from chance observations by making guesses, and experimented and tinkered until they found something that worked. They did minimal theorizing. Their methods are being revived today as evidence-based medicine, after two millennia of persuasion. Consider that before we knew of bacteria, and their role in diseases, doctors rejected the practice of hand washing because it made no sense to them, despite the evidence of a meaningful decrease in hospital deaths. Ignaz Semmelweis, the mid-nineteenth-century doctor who promoted the idea of hand washing, wasn’t vindicated until decades after his death. Similarly it may not “make sense” that acupuncture works, but if pushing a needle in someone’s toe systematically produces relief from pain (in properly conducted empirical tests), then it could be that there are functions too complicated for us to understand, so let’s go with it for now while keeping our minds open.
Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan (pp. 182-183). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
TK P: Science is just a tool: and it's an imperfect tool which is liable to the amount of information we have. Empiricism can protect you from this liability.
Exactly! This is the critiwue of those science nerds that need theories for everyrhing. If the theories dontexit yet it doesnt mean tht something is false
this calls for the odklejony mindset where we sometimes need to make the leap of faith if something works after experimentation this is the esence of empiricism and its probably more Te than Ti
dont beto scientific. Be rational
If you can't prove something it doesn't mean that it isn't real. It might mean that you don't have the tools to prove it—like when we thought the earth was flat cuz we didn't have the telescopes to prove it's round.
Product management is like an empirical science with little theoretizing. Literally. You do real work. Leverage that to deepen your understanding of human psychology.