Geo Sci
Submitted by EAST, TALIA (TYE5025) on 1/23/2012 1:15:59 PM
Points Awarded 14.00
Points Missed 1.00
Percentage 93.3%
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Most Americans support science because: A) The scientific method allows scientists to learn the Truth. B) All Americans are fascinated by science. C) All Americans are bored silly by science. D) Science has helped make our lives easier, safer, etc. E) All scientists are sexy.
Feedback: Without science and technology, the great majority of us would be dead, so we tend to be supporters of science. Although we know that science works, we’re never sure that it is completely right. Students so often discover things that professors missed, or that professors got wrong, that scientists would be silly to claim Truth. Comparing the TV ratings of the latest hit to the ratings of the latest science program on public broadcasting shows that many Americans are not fascinated by science, but the science-show ratings are above zero, so some people are fascinated by science. And hope as we might, it is unfortunately clear that not every scientist is sexy (just most of them are…).
Points Earned: 1.0/1.0
Correct Answer(s): D
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A scientist gains knowledge about how the world works, and uses that information to successfully predict what will happen in an experiment. This proves that the scientist’s knowledge is: A) True; you can’t get it right unless you know what is going on. B) Lucky; no one knows what is going on, so only lucky people get things right. C) Close; no one really knows what is going on, but people sort of know. D) Cheating. E) One or more of True, lucky, or close to being true (or cheating), but we can’t tell which.
Feedback: If you guessed “heads” before a coin flip, and it came up heads, that would NOT prove that you can predict all coin flips; you will get half of such guesses correct by chance. You might be cheating, you might be lucky, or you might have figured something out.
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Points Awarded 14.00
Points Missed 1.00
Percentage 93.3%
1.
Most Americans support science because: A) The scientific method allows scientists to learn the Truth. B) All Americans are fascinated by science. C) All Americans are bored silly by science. D) Science has helped make our lives easier, safer, etc. E) All scientists are sexy.
Feedback: Without science and technology, the great majority of us would be dead, so we tend to be supporters of science. Although we know that science works, we’re never sure that it is completely right. Students so often discover things that professors missed, or that professors got wrong, that scientists would be silly to claim Truth. Comparing the TV ratings of the latest hit to the ratings of the latest science program on public broadcasting shows that many Americans are not fascinated by science, but the science-show ratings are above zero, so some people are fascinated by science. And hope as we might, it is unfortunately clear that not every scientist is sexy (just most of them are…).
Points Earned: 1.0/1.0
Correct Answer(s): D
2.
A scientist gains knowledge about how the world works, and uses that information to successfully predict what will happen in an experiment. This proves that the scientist’s knowledge is: A) True; you can’t get it right unless you know what is going on. B) Lucky; no one knows what is going on, so only lucky people get things right. C) Close; no one really knows what is going on, but people sort of know. D) Cheating. E) One or more of True, lucky, or close to being true (or cheating), but we can’t tell which.
Feedback: If you guessed “heads” before a coin flip, and it came up heads, that would NOT prove that you can predict all coin flips; you will get half of such guesses correct by chance. You might be cheating, you might be lucky, or you might have figured something out.
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