1) What is the difference between pseudoscience and scientific evidence? Pseudoscience: anything being presented‚ as scientific but is not. Usually characterized by exaggerations‚ UN falsifiable claims‚ and anecdotes. Scientific Evidence: A process of inquiry followed by a body of knowledge. 2) Describe 3 main types of scientific inquiry: 3 types of scientific inquiry. Descriptive: what’s out there? Observing‚ no manipulations of variables Comparative: Seeks to describe relationships and correlations
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1.01 Reliance on Scientific Knowledge Summary: The code discusses that behavior analysts are to use scientific knowledge that is empirical and conceptually systematic. This code ensures that behavior analysts are using scientifically validated methods when assessing‚ as well as implementing behavior change. OBM Translation: Just as in clinical settings‚ it is imperative that OBM professionals use techniques and interventions that are scientifically proven‚ thus ensuring that the field of OBM is
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ANOVA Hypothesis Test ANOVA Hypothesis Test Living near a major city can be a positive aspect of being a homeowner or someone who uses real estate as an investment. Increasing population contributes to land and space diminishing‚ resulting in high demand for what is available. Industry and markets are in the city‚ attracting buyers who want to have the convenience of living near commercial properties. The difference in the pay scale between jobs in the city and jobs in the suburbs could
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The discovery of Otzi had scientists estimating how old the mummy was and what types of minerals his tools were. One hypothesis was that the ice mummy lived around 2000 BC because his tools‚ especially the ax head‚ which looked to have contain bronze and bronze was mostly used in tools and such in 2000 BC. To find the answer to the questions‚ and to see if their hypothesis were
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the most known around the world‚ but it very important to me and the world. No one knows what really causes MS‚ but scientists have many hypothesis of how the disease is caused. There are 4 main hypothesis’. Immunologic is one cause some scientists believe to be true where the immune system malfunctions and starts eating away the myelin sheath. Another hypothesis for why MS is caused is environmental. Through pattern‚ people that live near the equator have less MS and if they had MS they usually lived
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species are known to science‚ there is an estimated range of 4 to 20 million total species. 10‚000 new invertebrates are found each year. There has been over 1000 new species discovered in the Mekong region alone in the last decade. Empiricism is based on a reliance of the senses; however there is a major emphasis on visual observation in particular. The mind is conveyed as a clean tablet (slate) or ‘tabula rasa’; it should not be subjected to any predisposition. This term was coined by Aristotle
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Is Life Expectancy More Correlated with Obesity or Poverty? Hypothesis: When obesity and poverty rates are tested to see which is more correlated with life expectancy I would expect poverty to be more correlated and for it to be a negative correlation as well. I say this because obesity is in a way a subcategory of poverty. For example‚ people who are poorer tend to buy the less healthy foods because they are at a cheaper price‚ thusly causing obesity. Procedure: Research and Identify the obesity
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moving the production to other countries. Currently this is happening in most of the countries where they find other countries are cheaper to produce their products. Weighing advantages and disadvantages of off shoring is always debate. I want to summarize the advantages and disadvantages off shoring in point of view and then I will put my strategy on this. Advantages Off shoring helps in reduce the total costs of a product by getting cheaper labor and core stuff for the product. This way company
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Science behind the Nebular Hypothesis Heather Smith PHY 104 John Ensworth July 3‚ 2011 Science is a broad subject for anyone because there is so much information that came from Science. Science is another way of looking at things‚ however; not all scientific information is accurate for much of it an educated guesses or theories. One scientific method that has been well known and questioned numerous times has been the formation of the sun and our planets. What is this method I am
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Worked example from Tutorial 8 8.3 Three laboratories‚ A‚ B‚ and C‚ are used by food manufacturing companies for making nutrition analyses of their products. The following data are the fat contents (in grams) of the same weight of three similar types of peanut butter. | |Laboratory | |Peanut Butter |A |B |C |D | |Brand 1 |16
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