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B1 Ch 1 Lesson 2
Thinking Like a Scientist
Term | Definition |
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Skepticism | An attitude of doubt. |
Ethics | The rules that enable people to know right from wrong. |
Personal bias | An outlook influenced by a person’s likes and dislikes. |
Cultural bias | An outlook influenced by the beliefs, social forms, and traits of a group. |
Experimental bias | A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely. |
Objective | Describes the act of decision-making or drawing conclusions based on available evidence. |
Subjective | Describes the influence of personal feelings on a decision or conclusion. |
Deductive reasoning | A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation. |
Inductive reasoning | Using specific observations to make generalizations. |