Unit 1: Kins 3501
Research Methods In Kinesiology
● What do u think it means to be a good consumer? Someone who knows what
they are insured in getting and someone who doesn't just buy everything as well
as good money habits.
● Where do you get your information from when you look for exercise and health ?
Lecture 1/21/2021
BIG QUESTION: How do you become a “ good consumer” of research?
● What do you think it means to be a good consumer?
○ Being able to synthesize information , grasp information, understand
● #2
* When you think of the phrase “being a good consumer of information/research”
what comes to mind? In other words, what do you think is involved in being a
“good consumer of information/research”?
- Good sources, taking a diverse amount of information, not to be bias of
information taking in, having an open mind, being able to take important
information from sources. Check if they have enough trails done as well as peer
reviewed.
When you think about the information you receive about physical activity,
exercise, and health, what are the main sources from which you receive that
information? Please list the sources that come to mind.
- Healthy People 2020, Parents, Family, Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans, Research Databases: PubMed, John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic etc ,
ACSM
How do we determine the credibility of sources ?
- Looking at the author , peer reviewed ,
What is Science ?
● Science is a working definition
○ A way of acquiring knowledge by systematically investigating something.
Goals of Science
1. Description
2. Prediction
3. Explanation
● Causing of explanation
, ● Collecting data with surveys are a way of psychological reserach
1/26/ 2021 What is Pseudoscience: Lecture 2
What is Pseudoscience
● Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience
Features of Science
1. Systematic empiricism
2. Empirical Questions
3. Public knowledge
Systematic Empiricism
● Acquiring knowledge through observations
● Direct observation
● SOFIT The system for observing fitness observing time
Empirical Questions
● Questions that can be answered through observe technique
○ Observations though experience , taste , listening
● Physical activity Examples: Does a rock climbing unit enhance high school
students muscle strength and endurance more than a weight training unit?
Public Knowledge
● Results of scientific investigation are published
● Peer review journals , getting your information out to others
What is Pseudoscience
● Activities and / or beliefs that claim to be scientific but are not.
○ Look for one or more of the features of science not being present
Pseudoscience Questition: Video Clip
● What is the “naturalistic fallacy” ?
○ Reasoning base that natural is best , idea of the product is good
● What is the description given for science - plotiation ?
○ The use of real science to sell products
○ Using science terminology and making it seems sciencey
● What are the dangers of science exploitation ?
○ It can lead people to be mislead , distrust of the good science
● What things can one do to confront science- ploitation?
○ Being skeptical will allow to look more closely on each claim
○ Search for evidence
● What are examples of Health claims you have heard that are naturalistic fallacies
?
, Lecture 3 Misinformation 1/28/2021
Pseudoscience False science
● Systematic empiricism
● Empirical questions
● Public knowledge
Connecting Pseudoscience and Misinformation
● Pseudoscience involves misinformation
Science - exploitation and misinformation
● Science- exploitation : making claims about the science info and making false accurate
claims using the sciencitis terms
● Science findings and language to spread misinformation
What is Misinformation
● Information that is not accurate
Fighting Misinfo
● What did the video clip reveal about the source ( spreaders of misinformation ?
○ There must likely get there facts from social media which is most likely
misinformed
○ Celebs create misleading info too
● How do traditional news sources compare to social media sources concerning
misinformation?
○ Traditional new sources are pretty accurate compared to social media sources
○ In the flu that flu vaccine from traditional news sources were good and bad
information came from social media
○ Social media is faster and goes around easier which causes more result for
misinformation and less time for fact checked
● Top down (hearing it from predimonet individuals) vs. bottom up ( hearing it from social
media misinfo )
○ We may be feasible to spread it because we believe we are credited
○ Authroitical people are leading to have misinformation 38% of it was about
Trump and none were fact checked
● Why are we susceptible to misinformation?
○ Lack of education
○ Humility not thinking less of yourself , but thinking of yourself less
○ Biased and look for information
Uncertainty
● How do you think uncertainty may play into one’s susceptibility to misinofrmation ?
○ Naive realism
○ Bias
Research Methods In Kinesiology
● What do u think it means to be a good consumer? Someone who knows what
they are insured in getting and someone who doesn't just buy everything as well
as good money habits.
● Where do you get your information from when you look for exercise and health ?
Lecture 1/21/2021
BIG QUESTION: How do you become a “ good consumer” of research?
● What do you think it means to be a good consumer?
○ Being able to synthesize information , grasp information, understand
● #2
* When you think of the phrase “being a good consumer of information/research”
what comes to mind? In other words, what do you think is involved in being a
“good consumer of information/research”?
- Good sources, taking a diverse amount of information, not to be bias of
information taking in, having an open mind, being able to take important
information from sources. Check if they have enough trails done as well as peer
reviewed.
When you think about the information you receive about physical activity,
exercise, and health, what are the main sources from which you receive that
information? Please list the sources that come to mind.
- Healthy People 2020, Parents, Family, Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans, Research Databases: PubMed, John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic etc ,
ACSM
How do we determine the credibility of sources ?
- Looking at the author , peer reviewed ,
What is Science ?
● Science is a working definition
○ A way of acquiring knowledge by systematically investigating something.
Goals of Science
1. Description
2. Prediction
3. Explanation
● Causing of explanation
, ● Collecting data with surveys are a way of psychological reserach
1/26/ 2021 What is Pseudoscience: Lecture 2
What is Pseudoscience
● Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience
Features of Science
1. Systematic empiricism
2. Empirical Questions
3. Public knowledge
Systematic Empiricism
● Acquiring knowledge through observations
● Direct observation
● SOFIT The system for observing fitness observing time
Empirical Questions
● Questions that can be answered through observe technique
○ Observations though experience , taste , listening
● Physical activity Examples: Does a rock climbing unit enhance high school
students muscle strength and endurance more than a weight training unit?
Public Knowledge
● Results of scientific investigation are published
● Peer review journals , getting your information out to others
What is Pseudoscience
● Activities and / or beliefs that claim to be scientific but are not.
○ Look for one or more of the features of science not being present
Pseudoscience Questition: Video Clip
● What is the “naturalistic fallacy” ?
○ Reasoning base that natural is best , idea of the product is good
● What is the description given for science - plotiation ?
○ The use of real science to sell products
○ Using science terminology and making it seems sciencey
● What are the dangers of science exploitation ?
○ It can lead people to be mislead , distrust of the good science
● What things can one do to confront science- ploitation?
○ Being skeptical will allow to look more closely on each claim
○ Search for evidence
● What are examples of Health claims you have heard that are naturalistic fallacies
?
, Lecture 3 Misinformation 1/28/2021
Pseudoscience False science
● Systematic empiricism
● Empirical questions
● Public knowledge
Connecting Pseudoscience and Misinformation
● Pseudoscience involves misinformation
Science - exploitation and misinformation
● Science- exploitation : making claims about the science info and making false accurate
claims using the sciencitis terms
● Science findings and language to spread misinformation
What is Misinformation
● Information that is not accurate
Fighting Misinfo
● What did the video clip reveal about the source ( spreaders of misinformation ?
○ There must likely get there facts from social media which is most likely
misinformed
○ Celebs create misleading info too
● How do traditional news sources compare to social media sources concerning
misinformation?
○ Traditional new sources are pretty accurate compared to social media sources
○ In the flu that flu vaccine from traditional news sources were good and bad
information came from social media
○ Social media is faster and goes around easier which causes more result for
misinformation and less time for fact checked
● Top down (hearing it from predimonet individuals) vs. bottom up ( hearing it from social
media misinfo )
○ We may be feasible to spread it because we believe we are credited
○ Authroitical people are leading to have misinformation 38% of it was about
Trump and none were fact checked
● Why are we susceptible to misinformation?
○ Lack of education
○ Humility not thinking less of yourself , but thinking of yourself less
○ Biased and look for information
Uncertainty
● How do you think uncertainty may play into one’s susceptibility to misinofrmation ?
○ Naive realism
○ Bias
