Chapter 2: Pseudoscience

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Scientific Skepticism is

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approaching claims with an open mind but insisting on persuasive before accepting them

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Critical thinking can be also referred to as

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scientific thinking

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the ability to generate test and evaluate claims,data and theory openmindedly, helps us to solve everyday problems

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Critical thinking/Scientific thinking

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Occam’s Razor, Replicability, Ruling out the rival hypothesis, Extraordinary claims and Correlation isn’t causation are all

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Basic principles of scientific skepticism

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the idea that when there are two individual explanations for theory we should generally believe the more simpler explanation is

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Occam’s Razor

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the ability to replicate other research (can the results be duplicated) on other studies is

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Replicability

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when we ask our selves: maybe there’s another hypothesis? have important alternative explanations been excluded? we are…

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Ruling out Rival Hypothesis

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making a claim like “homeopathic medicine cures everything” is an example of

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Extraordinary claims without evidence

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Can we be sure that X causes Y is an example of

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Correlation isn’t Causation

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Dangers of Pseudoscience include:

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1. Opportunity Cost
2. Direct Harm
3. An inability to think scientifically as citizens

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a claim that appears scientific even though it lacks evidence ex astrology is

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Pseudoscience

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Warning Signs of Pseudoscience include?

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Lack of Falsifiability, Lack of Progress/Self Correction, Emphasis on Confirmation, Evasion of/or questionable Peer Review, Reliant on Anecdotal Evidence, Absence of Connectivity, Scientific Sounding Language, and Exaggerated Claims

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Lack of Falsifiability is something that

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cannot be tested

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Lack of Progress/Self-Correction is something that

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has been around for so long causing info to be outdated and difficult to confirm ex.astrology

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A psychic is an example of

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emphasis on confirmation

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believing claims only because its on a website, or because many people say it is being

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Reliant on Anecdotal Evidence

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a claim that is not connected to anything else in the world be know

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Absence of Connectivity

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believing a claim only bc it sounds sciency but is really just made up scientific words for something to sound more true, this represents the category of

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Scientific Sounding Language

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Why can opportunity cost be a harm to pseudoscience?

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we may waste our time depending on our beliefs and instead using scientifically unsupported treatment to get better ex.Law of attraction

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Logical Fallacies in Psychological Thinking include:

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Emotional Reasoning, Bandwagon, Either-or, and the Bias Blind Spot

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Bandwagon is assuming

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something is right just because may people believe it

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Emotional Reasoning is when we

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use emotion to evaluate whether a claim is valid

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Either-or is framing

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a question in a way it can only be answered one way

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The Bias Blind Spot is being overly

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confident about how the future will look

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Pseudoscience lacks protection against

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confirmation bias and belief perseverance

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Pseudo scientific claims such as astrology give us

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comfort, because they seem to offer control

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People may be drawn to pseudoscience for many reasons including:

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motivational factors, a need for wonder, pareidolid and apophenia

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the tendency to perceive meaningless images in meaningless visual stimuli

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Pareidolid

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the tendency to perceive meaningful connections among unrelated phenomenon

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Apophenia

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Experimental Research Methods determine

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cause and effect relationships

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Correlational Research Methods look for

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the relationship between X and Y

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a correlation between 1 and -1 is a

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perfect correlation

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a correlation that moves in opposite directions is a

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negative correlation

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a correlation that move in the same direction is a

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positive correlation

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the strength of the correlation is how close it is to

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1 and -1

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a Pro and a Con of Correlational Research Methods is that

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Pro: more flexible
Con:cant explain causation

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The 3 types of Descriptive Research Methods are:

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Naturalistic Observation, Case Study, and Survey Research

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Naturalistic Observation is? Whats a Pro and Con?

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naturally observing
pro; related to the real world
con;observer may be biased, no control over variables

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Case Study is? Whats a Pro and Con?

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an in depth analysis of a person group or event
pro; allows investigation or rare phenomenon, may provide existence proofs
cons;cannot determine cause and effect, researcher bias

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pro; efficient for collecting large amounts of data
cons; unrepresentative sample may lead to faulty generalizations, rely on self reports, cannot prove causality
are pros and cons of..

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survey research