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Scientific Method
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Placebo | A medicine or treatment intended to appear genuine to its recipient, but which has no pharmaceutical effect. |
| Hypothesis | A proposed explanation for a phenomenon. |
| Testable prediction | A specific, measurable statement about what will happen in an experiment or study if a given idea |
| Critical Experiment | A test that can decisively prove one competing scientific theory while ruling out all others |
| ScientificTheory | A well-tested and comprehensive explanation for a wide range of natural phenomena, supported by a vast body of repeated experimental and observational evidence |
| Control (and control group) | Any factor that is purposely kept constant throughout the experiment to ensure a fair test |
| Dependent Variable | This is the factor that a researcher measures to see how much effect the independent variable had. It "depends" on the changes made and represents the "effect" or outcome. |
| Independent Variable | This is the factor that the researcher deliberately changes, manipulates, or controls in an experiment. It is the presumed "cause" in a cause-and-effect relationship. |
| Anecdotal evidence | Evidence based entirely on personal testimony, individual stories, or casual observations rather than systematic data collected through controlled experiments. |
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