BIOC17H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Academic Journal, Science News
1 Mar 2018
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Sources of information: your own experience or that of trusted others, authority figures/people who seem like they would know, e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: oprah"s spee(cid:272)h at the golde(cid:374) glo(cid:271)es, your own intuition, scientific research. If your source of information comes from sources like your own intuition or experience of others problems arise about the credibility and accuracy of the information, some problems include: Confound variables: a confound is another reason why a certain effect would have happened. Example: her friend claimed a weight loss program to be effective (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s doi(cid:374)g great for hi(cid:373) a(cid:374)d he is feeling great and lost a significant amount of weight after the process. Maybe they are feeling great because of the effect of actually having a plan, and feeli(cid:374)g like he"s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g productive. We do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) if this is the case because he is the only one who has done the weight loss plan.
