Talk:Protocol (science)

message: I plan to start updating this page soon. Some of the issues that need addressed is are the various goals and purpose of scientific protocals. These fall into various categories;:
Safety
Equipment
Bias
Reporting
These can include subcategories like the role of statistics and sample size, predefining exclusion data etc. How the Scientific method plays a major role and the limitations of applicability in some sciences. The abuses resulting from improper protocals. This is not a complete list. If you have any ideas I would love to hear about it. I will be working out the framework before updating the page.
It has occurred to me that either this page should be Scientific protocal or Scientific protocal should redirect here since most people seaching will more likely find it that way. Any input?
Link notes;
Clinical trial protocol
--My wan 05:02, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

message: The article seems to be written from a specific viewpoint regarding certain attributes of a protocol, particularly the discussions of bias and statistics.  SOPs may or may not be used, and are typically used in applied sciences, in clinical labs and in indurstrial test labs.  A more balanced view of many aspects should be presented. --Zeamays (talk) 19:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You claim here a SOP but fail to specify in any manner whatsoever what points of view have been neglected. Certainly we can no more neglect POVs than we can restrict the page to particular POVs. I will leave the POV tag up the remainder of this year (2008) to provide an opportunity for a response as to why it should stay or be fixed. The response can be in the form of explanations and/or examples what what was neglected. If the tag is removed prior to a response it may be re-added but please provide the information asked for here in doing so.
--My wan (talk) 16:52, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I thought the tag was self-evident, particularly in light of the (brief) examples I cited above..  I don't think I need to write a thesis about the lopsided views. Apparently, you didn't read what I wrote in the section above. To reiterate, the article generalizes about certain characteristics of protocols which are not necessarily applicable to all the diverse fields of science and engineering in which protocols are used. This is not to say that those aspects of protocols are wrong, just that they aren't general.  Instead of arguing about POV, why don't you return to editing the article itself. My intention is to begin doing that myself to make the improvements I see are needed. --Zeamays (talk) 02:33, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I don't see any examples, brief or otherwise. All I see is the claim that the lopsidedness pertains particularly to the bias and statistics sections. I am willing to improve it further to meet whatever deficiencies may exist. I'm not asking for a thesis, a simple (even singular) example of what has been omitted would suffice. Without this I have no idea what concepts have been omitted and/or what points of view are short changed. Saying that they particularly pertain to "attributes" of the bias and statistics sections says nothing about what "attributes" are deemed to be neglected. Neither does stating where SOPs are typically used specify what is deemed to be neglected.
It wasn't even claimed in the article that SOPs are universal in a scientific protocol, only that many feilds of study use them. Following this are list of elements that may be relevant to any given protocol. Would simply specifying in the overview that specific elements may or may not be relevant in a given protocol suffice? The biggest issue I have is that you specified bias and statistics in particular. These are the two that are truely universal, even for the most mundane measurements and/or claim. Though they may sometimes be skirted by specifying the equipement used. The equipement specifications then determines the bias and statistics. Even then there's a presumption that the fundamental accurancy is not strongly sensitive indicator of the claims. Even that is implicitly a statistical claim, even if trivially so.
--My wan (talk) 15:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unbalanced viewpoint tag

message: Scientific protocol redirects here. It looks to me like it would be best to reverse that--as the lead of this article notes, "Protocols are employed in a wide range of fields, from social science to quantum mechanics." Most of what's in this article applies to either, so it seems like specifying "natural sciences" is a limitation which isn't needed. CRETOG8(t/c) 16:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Noticed myself and renamed to Protocol (Science). François Robere (talk) 17:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific protocol in social sciences