Empiricism is the belief that knowledge can only be obtained through experience and use of the five senses. It became a popular approach to science during the later years of the Scientific Revolution. What effect did this belief have on scientific study in future eras? Scientists took a more deductive approach in their work--they tried to work our answers logically instead of experimenting.

Scientists as a group became more opposed to religious interference in daily life.

Scientists became more biased in their work--they saw what they expected to see.

Scientists became more open-minded about the results they expected to see in their experiments.