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9 Cards in this Set
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What is Science?
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Objective,systematic pursuit of truth
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What is Truth?
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Knowledge of things as they were,are and as they will be.
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Scientific method for finding truth?
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1. Observe and Collect Facts
2. Develope a theory to explain what is observed 3. Confirm therory by experimentation and study 4. Have others verify theory. |
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Reproducibilty in Scientific method?
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Another Scientist must be able to follow the same protocal and get similar results. e.g Pons and Fleishman on cold fusion.
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Problems with Hyptheses?
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1.Religion Problems (life after death)
2.Ethical Problems 3.Experimental conditions can't be reproduced(asteroid and planet collision 4. Variation |
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Sources of Variation
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1. Measurement Variation(repeated measurements e.g weight)
2. Natural Variation(subject to subject in one species) 3. Experiment to Experiment(diff conditions everytime) (The science of statistics exists because of variation) |
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Definition of Statistics
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A systematic and objective methodology for effectively using data to answer research questions and test hypotheses in the presence of variation by:
collecting data summarizing data drawing conclusions from data |
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Florence Nightingale
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Used data to estimate mortality of soldiers in war due to poor sanitary conditions.
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Lesson 1 Vocabulary
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Truth
Statistics Variation Measurement Variation Natural Variation Experimentation |
