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unit 1 topic 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| observation | the act of carefully watching, noticing, or listening to someone or something to gather information or gain understanding |
| peer review | a quality-control process where independent experts in a specific academic field evaluate a research paper or scholarly work before it gets published |
| bias | a strong preference or an unfair leaning for or against a person, group, or idea |
| variable | factors that can change in a experiment |
| constant | factor that stays the same in a experiment |
| control group | a baseline comparison group in an experiment that does not receive the test treatment |
| dependent variable | the factor that you measure and observe in an experiment to see how it changes |
| independent variable | a factor that a researcher changes, controls, or manipulates in an experiment to test its effects on another factor. |
| experimental group | the set of test subjects in a scientific study that receives the specific treatment or intervention being tested |
| group inference | methods used to draw conclusions, test hypotheses, or generate coordinated results for a collection of variables, outputs, or individuals rather than focusing on a single isolated data point. |