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