Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Myoglobin, Dependent And Independent Variables
11 Sep 2014
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Knowledge about, or study of, the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation (as defined by webster"s dictionary). Focuses on and aims to explain aspects of the natural world (things you can see) Leads to other research (but some research does not always lead to further research) America was in an arms race with the ussr, trying to land the first person on the moon was a significant aspect of the race. Tool for determining nature of a relationship between variables or how one variable directly influences another. Manipulate and observer the effects of a variable on another variable. There are two types of variables, dependent and independent: A dependent variable is the thing you want to actually evaluate. It is your variable of interest and something you can objectively measure. Independent variables are changed in order to observe/explain changes in the dependent variable. Always have independent variables on x-axis and dependent variables on y-axis.
