Scientific Thinking Flashcards
1
Q
Why use Scientific Thinking?
A
enable us to reject hypothesis about how the world works
2
Q
Scientific Thinking Steps
A
Hypothesis
Prediction
Experiment
Analyse
3
Q
How to increase the power of the experiment?
A
randomize subjects across control and experiment groups
control your study
use a double blind design
4
Q
Pseudoscience
A
- explain something in a way that wounds scientific but is actually not proved in order to convince someone
- capitalizes on the belief shared by most people that scientific thinking is efficient and effective method for learning about the world.
5
Q
Anecdotes
A
overly biased by observation not based on careful study and/or not representative of the norm
6
Q
Superstitution
A
find a “cause-and-effect” and don’t try to prove if the consequence is connected or not
