SCIE 2010U Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Earth, Protein, Physics
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The idealized scientific method: based on proposing and testing hypotheses, hypothesis = educated guess. But science rarely proceeds in this idealized way. For example: sometimes we start by "just looking" then coming up with possible explanations. Sometimes we follow our intuition rather than a particular line of evidence. Modern science seeks explanations for observed phenomena that rely solely on natural causes. Science progresses through the creation and testing of models of nature that explain the observations as simply as possible. A scientific model must make testable predictions about natural phenomena that would force us to revise or abandon the model if the predictions do not agree with observations. "i often say that when you can measure something and express it in numbers, you know something about it. When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
