ANT-1430 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Binomial Nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus
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Need to distinguish between science vs pseudoscience. Features of a scienti c hypothesis: reproducible, testable, falsi able. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong einstein. Scienti c framework: find a problem, establish hypothesis, figure out implications, collect data, compare data to implications, revise and retest. The simplest explanation is most likely correct. Baloney detection: ad hominem, argument from authority, appeal to ignorance, observational selection (counting the hits, forgetting the misses, misunderstanding of the nature of statistics, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, confusion of correlation and causation, be aware of funding. Is evolution fact or theory: theory can either mean a hypothesizes or can refer to a body of laws used to explain a range of phenomena. Some scientists like to talk about the fact of evolution and the theory of natural selection.
