Having been a student of the scientific method as a psychology major in undergraduate, I  used the American Psychological Association's methodology in testing hypotheses.  Both in graduate and undergraduate studies, I see the value in the statistical methods as approaches to truth.  For a normal bell shaped curve distribution to which the results of empirical studies apply, there is 68.2% applicability percentage of the study's results to the general population.  26.8% are outliers with 13.4% on the extremes which do not apply.  So we can [...]