Module 5 - Scientific Investigations
An organism studied by Marshall and Warren testing the hypothesis that they caused peptic ulcers.
What are Bacteria?
The type of error that causes measurements to deviate from the true value by a consistent fixed amount in the same direction.
What are systematic errors?
The effect where participants change their behaviour because they know they are being studied.
The major nuclear accident in 1986 that drastically affected global public opinion on nuclear power.
What is the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown?
The year I was born.
What is 2002?
A type of investigation method that Eratosthenes used to approximate Earth's circumference by measuring shadow lengths in different locations.
What is Fieldwork?
An advanced technology that ensures that packets of of particles are held tightly packed ensuring collisions in the LHC.
What are quadrupole magnets?
The practice of concealing group assignments from both research participants and researchers to limit bias.
What is a double-blind trial?
This global organisation spearheaded the vaccination campaign that eradicated smallpox in 1980.
What is the World Health Organisation (WHO)?
This is how tall I am.
What is 198cm (6'6")
The key factor in determining the reliability of an experiment.
What are consistent results?
The scientific law that describes why a building resists acceleration due an earthquake?
What is retraction
The small technology used in areas without access to clean drinking water. (and the technique it uses)
What is the Life Straw? (filtration)
The topic I found the most interesting this year in Investigating Science
What is a X-ray diffraction crystallography and the structure of DNA.
The ethical principle that requires researchers to protect the identity and personal information of participants.
What is confidentiality?
The ethical practices necessary when using Indigenous knowledge of native plants for developing new medicines.
What is establishing equitable partnerships and ensuring benefit sharing?
A common technique used by pseudoscience's to make them sound more scientific, when they are not actually being scientific.
The statement of ethical principles regarding medical research, and the key ethical consideration needed.
What is the Helsinki Principle, and the need for informed consent?
My childhood dream job
What is a Palaeontologist?
This was the scientific evidence collected by Doppler.
What are spectral lines from photographic plates of the light from stars?
The modern telescope that collects light through a series of mirrors, rather than glass lenses. (And an example).
What is a reflective telescope (James Webb/Hubble).
Pons and Fleischmann’s 1989 claim that they produced this phenomenon at room temperature was quickly dismissed when follow-up experiments failed reproducibility.
What is cold fusion?
What is Australian Research Council?
This is my middle name
What is Daniel?