Term | Definition |
Descriptive Law | the least valuable type of evidence you can gain from scientific investigation |
Baloney detection kit | A way to identify valid science |
Anti-science | Based on cultural norms, personal bias, and popular ideas |
Theory | descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves |
Junk Science | Study that isn't supported with insufficient data |
Darwin's Theory of Evolution | Law which changed into a theory |
Ethics of a proposed experiment can be explored using deontogical or utilitarian systmes. True or false? | True |
Any claim can be a hypothesis. True or false? | False |
A scientific statement is considered true if all attempts to falsify it have failed. True or false? | True |
Attitudes and opinions can influece the interpretation of the results of a study. True or false? | True |
A hypothesis eventually becomes a theory. True or false? | False |
Failed experiments sometimes help you come to the correct hypothesis. True or false? | True |
Evidence logically follows from inference. True or false? | True |
With even fragmentary evidence, we can often construct a coherent and reasonable conclusion. True or false? | True |
What are 2 or 3 things scientifically literate people should be able to do? | Support reasonable and coherent studies, and remain unbiased during investigation |
What criteria/characteristics in the BDK help you distinguish valid from invalid science? | No authority, can be repeated, not based solely on influence, testable and falsifiable |
Does correlation mean cause and effect? | No |
What are the 4 criteria for a scientific experiment? | Based on evidence, valid hypothesis, unbiased, conclusion must be valid |
Inductive reasoning | Goes from specific pieces of information to an explanation or inference of general phenomenon |
Deductive reasoning | From general phenomenon to hypothesis to specific information |
Psuedoscience | either not falsifialbe or not testable |