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Chapter 1 Science
Lesson 2 Thinking like a Scientist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Skepticism | having an attitude of doubt |
| Ethics | refers to the rules that enable people to know right from wrong |
| Personal Bias | comes from a person's likes and dislikes |
| Clutural Bias | stems form the culture in which a person grows up |
| Experimental Bias | is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely |
| Objective | means that you make decisions and draw conclusions based on a bailable evidence. |
| Subjective | that personal feelings have entered into a decision or conclusion |
| Deductive Reasoning | is a way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation |
| Inductive Reasoning | uses specific observations to make generalizations |