Geography 2153A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Control, Environmental Ethics
19 Dec 2013
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Chapter 2: environmental science: science, worldviews, & ethics. Environmental decision making reflects the interactions of society, politics, culture, economics, and values, as well as scientific information. Science: a process used to investigate the world around us a systematic attempt to understand the universe. Hypothesis: explanation that can be accepted until disproved based on assumptions. Scientists use two kinds of reasoning: inductive and deductive. Deductive reasoning: when scientists draw conclusions about their observations of the natural world by means of logical reasoning. Inductive reasoning: when a scientist draws a general conclusion based on a limited set of observations. Probability: one way scientists express how certain or uncertain they are about the quality of their observations and how confident they are in their predictions. Correlation: the degree to which one variable is related to another variable. Science is a process used to investigate the world around us a systematic attempt to understand the universe.
