SCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Negative Relationship, Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics
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Science is a cumulative process: larger scale accumulation of knowledge, cooperation & contribution from countless individuals, culmination of the labor of many people, studying different aspects, adding small insights. Ideas are exchanged, debated, tested, re-tested, : to arrive at a general consensus, multitude of results (often seemingly contradictory) can be confusing. Applying critical thinking (steps in critical thinking: applying critical thinking toward the problem could involve several steps, identify and evaluate premises and conclusions in an argument; 9-7-17 | 3: acknowledge and clarify uncertainties, vagueness, equivocation, and contradictions, distinguish between facts and values, recognize and assess assumptions, distinguish source reliability or unreliability; and, recognize and understand conceptual frameworks. In some ways, children are the ultimate practical scientists no pre-conceived bias in their investigations: however, society uses numbers called statistics to let you evaluate and compare things. Information known by only one person isn"t useful to society, and communication is essential.
