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Foundations of Scientific Thinking quiz

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Foundations of Scientific Thinking — Module Assessment

11 questions · pass mark 75%

  1. 1.What single question best tests whether a claim is scientific?
  2. 2.Which is an observation rather than an inference?
  3. 3.What is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction?
  4. 4.Why is a risky prediction stronger evidence than a safe one?
  5. 5.In science, how do a law and a theory relate?
  6. 6.In what sense is every model wrong?
  7. 7.A study gives fertilizer to plants and measures height. What is the dependent variable?
  8. 8.What does randomization protect against that careful matching cannot?
  9. 9.A scale consistently reads 72.4 kg for a 70 kg object. This is:
  10. 10.Why can more measurements not fix systematic error?
  11. 11.Rewrite 'this app makes you more productive' as a testable claim.
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