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Lesson 2 Thinking like a Scientist

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Definition
Skepticism   having an attitude of doubt  
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Ethics   refers to the rules that enable people to know right from wrong  
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Personal Bias   comes from a person's likes and dislikes  
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Clutural Bias   stems form the culture in which a person grows up  
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Experimental Bias   is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely  
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Objective   means that you make decisions and draw conclusions based on a bailable evidence.  
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Subjective   that personal feelings have entered into a decision or conclusion  
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Deductive Reasoning   is a way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation  
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Inductive Reasoning   uses specific observations to make generalizations  
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