Science Practical Words Flashcards
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Reliability
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If you can repeat your results and someone else can reproduce your result to get the same/similar values they are reliable
2
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Validity
A
How useful your evidence is to actually answer the question
3
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Independent variable
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The variable you change to see what happens
4
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Control variable
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A variable that must be kept the same to prevent it affecting your results
5
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Dependent variable
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The variable you measure
6
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Reproducability
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If you get similar results when you try to reproduce your investigation under equivalent conditions it is ‘reproducible’
7
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Precision
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The ability to be exact/the closeness of readings between repeats
8
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Uncertainty
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The interval in which the true value can be expected to lie
