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A bar graph, generally with upright bars.
What is a Histogram?
Selecting data that that specifically supports your claim while ignoring or excluding data that does not support or refutes your claim.
What is Cherry-Picking?
Measurements, observations and information.
What is Data?
"Top down" reasoning win which we start with a general principle and derive a testable prediction about a specific case.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
Inventing new data or results to lie or mislead your work.
What is Fabrication?
The claiming someone's work or ideas as one's own.
What is Plagiarism?
Also known as the response variable, it is the one affected by the other variables.
What is the Dependent Variable?
When researchers are either offered benefits for cooperating with or threatened with consequences for opposing a person or group, in connection with their research.
What is Conflict of Interest?
A variable that does not respond to other variables in a particular test.
What is an Independent Variable?
Although definitions differ, this generally means valid science according to basic scientific principles?
What is Sound Science?
Any person or company that funds research and is concerned with the outcome of the research.
What is a Stakeholder?
Original, independent thinking that asks, "How might I approach this problem in new and inventive ways?"
What is Creative Thinking?
Observation of natural events to deduce causal relationships.
What is Natural Experiment?
"Bottom up" reasoning in which we study specific examples and try to discover patterns and derive general explanations from collected observations.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
Making an observation or obtaining a particular result consistantly.
What is Reproducibility?
A set of moral principles and values that can be used to govern decision making and behavior for an individual or group.
What is Ethics?
An idea or explanation accepted by a substantial number of scientists.
What is a Scientific Theory?
The arrangement of data or the misreporting of results to support a claim that the data does not necessarily support.
What is Manipulation?
A conditional explanation that can be verified or falsified by observation or experimentation.
What is a Hypothesis?
An ability to evaluate information and opinions in a systematic, purposeful, efficient manner.
What is Logical Thinking?
Requirements that need to be met to consider a problem solved.
What is Criteria?
The orderly pursuit of knowledge, relying on observations that test hypotheses in order to answer questions.
What is Science?
The application of science and math to solve problems.
What is Engineering?
A design in which researchers do not know which wsubjects were given experimental treatment until after data has been collected and analyzed.
What is a Blind Study?
Repeating studies or tests.
What is Replication?