Scientific Think & ScientificMethod

Steps

Asking a Meaning Question

Gathering Relevant Information

Making Observation

Library or one's experience

Trial Experiments or past experiments

Scientific Hypothesis

Must be testable or falsfiable

Testing the hypothesis

Conducting Experiments

Further observation

Analyizing Results

Logical Evidence

Emperical Evidence

Modifying the Hypothesis

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When the first hypothesi Fails

Draw Conclusions

Provide Methods & Results

Scientific thinkining based on

Empiricisim

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Types of EvidenceCircumstantial EvidenceSpectral EvidenceEmotional EvidenceAuthoritarian EvidenceTestimonial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence

Spectral Evidence

Revelatory Evidence

Emotional Evidence

Authoritarian Evidence

Testimonial Evidence

Rationalism

Logical Reasoning

Emotions are not evidence

Description

Determine logical fallacies

Recognize errors in stastics

Ways to think logically

Reading

Writing

Math

Skepticisim

Questioning beliefs & conclusions

Being undogmatic (willingness to change one's beliefs)

Having an open mind

continuos questioning of new theories