OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT
OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT
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DOI：
10.1056/nejm195306112482401
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发表时间：
1953-01-01
影响因子：
158.5
通讯作者：
HILL, AB
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作者：
HILL, AB
两年前，我的一位前辈在他的卡特讲座中指出，任何科学的目的都是“积累系统化的可证实的知识”，而这要通过“观察、实验和思考”来实现--后者包括批评和想象。他接着说：“使用实验方法有辉煌的发现，而观察方法却收效甚微。这句格言肯定会被证明，至少乍一看，对预防医学的倡导者来说，不仅仅是有点令人不安。在处理人口特征时，在分类时. .. . . .
TWO years ago, in his Cutter Lecture, one of my predecessors pointed out that the object of any science is "the accumulation of systematized verifiable knowledge," and that this is to be achieved through "observation, experiment and thought" — the last including both criticism and imagination. He then added, "the use of the experimental method has brilliant discoveries to its credit, whereas the method of observation has achieved little."1This dictum must surely prove, at least at first sight, more than a little disconcerting to the exponent of preventive medicine. In dealing with the characteristics of human populations, in sorting . . .