ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Null Hypothesis
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An empirical process that relies on evidence and experiment. Create a question or deduction based on what you observe. Hypothesis - testable statement about the natural world that can be used to build inferences and explanations. Can support or reject, not prove or disprove. Null hypothesis - statement claiming that there is no relationship between two events. Theory - a well-supported explanation of an aspect of the natural world (results from a well tested hypothesis) Fact - when a theory is repeatedly tests and supported to a very high degree of confidence. Used to make conclusions about phenomenons in the natural world. If i have seen further, i is by standing on the shoulder of giants . Looked at world around him and made observations about the nature of things. Each living form possesses an absolutely fixed essence that could not be altered. Was the first to challenge the notion as earth being the center of the universe.
