Scientific Thinking

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Mathematics

după Desi McKeown

Galileo

după marwa salem

Scientific Think & Scientific Method

după Yousra Habib

FOUR FAMOUS COUPLES

după BARBERAN GOMEZ, OSCAR 2019 - 2020

Scientific Thinking Omar Maamoun 900121847

Forgery

No # of expts can prove me right but 1 expt can prove me wrong

Tmeline

Visual aid

Events in chronological order

Paradigms

A set of assumptions that constitutes a way of perceiving reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

It will get warmer as we approach spring

Inductive

Specific to general

Lisa is a girl, she likes to wear hats. Therefore, all girls wear hats.

Weasel words

statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading

Types of research

Experimental

Test an independent variable

Case study

In depth record kept by outside observer

Survey

Inferences about behavioral date collected by questionnaire interviews

Correlation

Determine degree and relationship between 2 variables

Observational

Non experiment approach used in field or real life situations

Fallacies

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc: As soon as Obama got re-elected, Disney began talks for making a new Star Wars.

Absolute truths

Religion

Mindomo

Recognize patterns in train of thought

Ability to visualize thoughts

Deductive

General to specific

All canines howl at the moon. German shepherds are canines, therefore they howl at the moon.

Scientific method setup

Control variable

Variables kept constant

Control group

Does not undergo experiment

Dependant variable

Variable measured in experiment

Independent variable

Variable changed by scientist

Critical Thinking

the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.

Bad Science

Bad

Bad science is where people misuse science and scientific research

Unrealistic claims, such as creams that make you 10 years younger

Junk

untested or unproven theories when presented as scientific fact.

Homeopathy

Pathological

an area of research where "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions."

UFOs

Pseudoscience

a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method

Astrology

Scientific Method

Theory

Repeat

Testing

Prediction

Hypothesis

Testable

Falsifiable

Observation