Working Group Methodical Standards

The objectivity and reliability of science is the foundation of dependable, knowledge-based decisions. To ensure the reliability, quality and transparency of the results achieved in science in the future too, self-reflection is key.

Goals of the Working Group Methodical Standards in interdisciplinary comparison

The Working Group

• reflects, from within science, on the criteria for good science

• compares across disciplines the foundational standards for ensuring quality

Project Description

The Working Group will investigate, in different sample scientific disciplines, which methodical standards are applied in each discipline to ensure the reliability and quality of scientific research results. The differing forms taken in particular disciplines by fundamental standards, such as the replicability of results, the intersubjective verifiability of statements and the orientation from a basis of empirical data, will be analysed comparatively.

The starting point is the standards that are de facto established in the different disciplines, which are to be explicated, made more precise and tested for their meaningfulness in joint interdisciplinary work and through specific research questions.

Outlooks and review

• Lecture series

• Book publication