[BIL 150] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (38 pages long)
5 Oct 2016
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Who is a good scientist: someone who is devoted to the art of inquiry. Should publish and share informations so science can move forward (the body of knowledge). Science is following a method: hypothesis, procedure, data, discussion. Nothing is in a set state; always changing. Science is described as organized skepticism nothing is to be accepted without question. Science involves: asking good questions; coming up with good, plausible answers (hypotheses); testing these hypotheses robustly, unambiguously, and honestly (unbiased). Experimental questions: require explanations, prior knowledge, and are testable. Experimental questions require a more in depth answer that requires resing. Good questions: one that can be answered through experiment, observation, logical inference, that is built upon previous experimentation or observation. Questions are also judged on the worth perceived to be associated with successfully answering that question. They are often distinguished simply in terms of the perceived degree of effort necessary to answer the question.
