NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Statistical Significance

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1840
• Professor: Carol Bigwood

Document Summary

Is everything that surrounds outside your skin to the edge of the universe. Is all those parts of the physical word around us that contribute to help us sustain life. Some part of the environment is changing and is under threats known as stress. These changes can be natural or artificial (brightness of the sun - natural) Artificial - human consumption of natural gas. The study of how the environment works and of humanist impact upon it. The systematic study of the way nature works and how nature works. What distinguishes science from many of the other is the reliance by empirical methods (tests of possible explanations of observations) Seeks to uncover basic underlying principles so that predictions may be made if we make predictions we can create technology. There are two main forms of reasons used: All 1st year students drink during frosh week. All nats 1840 students are in 1st year.