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A sociological approach to the search for gravitational waves

Harry Collins: Gravity’s ghost: Scientific discovery in the twenty-first century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 200pp, $40 HB

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  2. A false positive is a type I error that occurs when an accepted test result incorrectly indicates the existence of a finding. On the other hand, a false negative result is a type II error that occurs when an accepted test result incorrectly indicates the absence of a finding.

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  • Collins, H. 2004. Gravity’s shadow: The search for gravitational waves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Karaca, K. A sociological approach to the search for gravitational waves. Metascience 24, 195–198 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9963-y

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