Scientific Thinking Flashcards

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Why use Scientific Thinking?

A

enable us to reject hypothesis about how the world works

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Scientific Thinking Steps

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Hypothesis
Prediction
Experiment
Analyse

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How to increase the power of the experiment?

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randomize subjects across control and experiment groups
control your study
use a double blind design

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Pseudoscience

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  • 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.
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Anecdotes

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overly biased by observation not based on careful study and/or not representative of the norm

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Superstitution

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find a “cause-and-effect” and don’t try to prove if the consequence is connected or not

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