Science skills Flashcards
What does CORMMSS stand for when designing an investigation?
Change, organism, repeat, measure, measure, same, same
What does FLIDUB stand for when drawing tables?
Full Labels, Independent variable, Dependent variable, Units, Brackets
What graph would you plot if your data was continuous?
Line graph
What graph would you plot if your data was categoric?
Bar graph
What does SLAPUK stand for?
Scale, Line/bar, Axis, Points, Units, Key
What does SEE stand for when evaluating a statement?
Statement, Evidence, Explain
What is reliability?
How consistent and trustworthy a set of results are
What is accuracy?
How close the result is to the true value
What is precision?
The closeness of repeated
results to each other
How can reliability be improved?
Take more repeats
How can accuracy be improved?