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по Farah Anwar 10 лет назад

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Scientific Thinking: Toolbox

The text delves into various aspects of scientific thinking, emphasizing the importance of a structured approach to understanding and conducting research. It highlights the necessity of forming hypotheses, conducting experiments, and making observations to arrive at reliable conclusions.

Scientific Thinking: Toolbox

Mindomo by Farah Anwar Mohamed Arafa Aya Sharaf

Scientific thinking toolbox

Paradigm

- Assumptions, concepts, values, practices form model of understanding - No contradiction

Deductive

- Start with general statement then examines possibilities to reach specific, logical conclusion

Inductive

- Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

20 fallacies

straw man
confusion or correlation and causation
slippery slope
short term vs. long term
excluded middle, or false dichotomy
meaningless question
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
non sequitur
inconsistency
misunderstanding of the nature of statistics
statistics of small numbers
observational selection
begging the question
weasel words
suppresed evidence
special pleading
appeal to ignorance
argument from adverse consequences
argument from authority
ad hominem

research methods

case studies
surveys
natural observation
corrolation
experimental

wrong science

pathological: - Well intentioned science with almost imperceptible mistakes - Tricked into false results by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions
Bad: - Scientific setup is wrong
Junk: - Good science to support a bad setting - Inaccurate analysis and data that is used to skew opinion or push agenda
pseudo: -based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific - not consistent with the methods or principles of science - can’t be tested - lack evidence

process of science

conclusions
experiments
proposal = hypothesis
questions
observation

Ethics

science should be ethical

scientific experiment

number: must be large enough
control variable: constant in experiment
control group: experiment not applied on
dependent variable: depends on other variables
independent variable: does not depend on other variables

3 characteristics of scientific thinking

skepticism: questioning not rejection
rationalism
empirical evidence

Reliability

unbiased
testable
quantitative
measurable
empiricle
repeatable

timeline

Understand history easier
Task durations
overall view by scalling
appealing to audience
multimedia tolerent
ordered historical events
very visual

mindomo

Visualize thoughts
Organize ideas
presentation enhancement
high accessibility
user-friendly
learning tool
efficient communication