Scientific Thinking
Scientific Thinking flashcards
97 cards covering the key scientific thinking vocabulary. Reveal the definition, mark the ones you know, and shuffle for another pass. Recalling a term before you flip — rather than re-reading it — is what moves it into long-term memory.
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- Abiogenesis
- Accuracy
- Applied research
- Atom
- Base rate
- Basic reproduction number (R0)
- Basic research
- Big Bang
- Big science
- Blinding
- Bradford Hill considerations
- Calibrated confidence
- Causation
- Chaos theory
- Confounding variable
- Connectome
- Conservation of energy
- Control group
- Controlled variable
- Correlation
- Cosmic microwave background
- CRISPR
- Cumulative knowledge
- Dark matter
- Dependent variable
- DNA
- Effect size
- Element
- Emergence
- Empiricism
- Evidence-informed decision
- Evolution
- Extremophile
- Fact-value distinction
- False precision
- Falsifiability
- Gene
- Germ theory
- Greenhouse effect
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Heliocentrism
- Herd immunity
- Hype cycle
- Hypothesis
- Independent variable
- Inference
- Keeling curve
- Margin of error
- Measurement uncertainty
- Model
- Multiple comparisons
- n-of-1 experiment
- Natural philosophy
- Natural selection
- Null hypothesis
- Observation
- Observer bias
- Open question
- p-value
- Paradigm shift
- Peer community
- Peer review
- Placebo
- Practical significance
- Pre-registration
- Precautionary principle
- Precision
- Prediction
- Preprint
- Provisional knowledge
- Pseudoscience
- Publication bias
- Quantum entanglement
- Quantum superposition
- Random error
- Randomization
- Replication
- Responsible innovation
- Retraction
- Reverse causation
- Risky prediction
- Sampling bias
- Science
- Science literacy
- Scientific consensus
- Scientific law
- Scientific method
- Scientific misconduct
- Scientific Revolution
- Scientific society
- Simpson's paradox
- Statistical significance
- Systematic error
- Theory
- Theory of relativity
- Truncated axis
- Turing test