This is the word for unscientific ideas that are presented as if they were discovered and investigated scientifically.
What is pseudoscience?
100
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is to identify a question?
100
This is the terrible and often fatal disease for which the very first vaccine was discovered.
What is smallpox?
100
This is the variable that is measured or observed to see if it changes when another changes.
What is the dependent variable?
200
Information gathering by noticing specific details of a phenomenon.
What is observation?
200
Name a type of pseudoscience that we discussed in class.
What is astrology, alchemy, spontaneous generation, etc...
200
This is a testable educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is the last name of the guy who discovered that exposure to cowpox can render people immune to smallpox.
What is Jenner?
200
This is a variable that does not change as a result of another variable changing. In some experiments, time is this type of variable, it changes, but its change is not dependent on anything else.
What is an independent variable?
300
The word for the information that is gathered during experimental research.
What is data?
300
This is a two word name for the tendency of people to remember things that confirm their ideas more than they remember things that don't confirm their ideas.
What is confirmation bias?
300
This is something designed to test an idea, usually by attempting to control all but one variable, to see what changing the one variable does.
What is an experiment?
300
This was the experimental group in Jenner's first experiment with cowpox and smallpox exposure.
Who was the 8-year-old son of his gardener?
300
What good is a finding that is not communicated to others?
What is no good at all?
400
This is the name for the methodical, step-by-step process that scientists use.
What is the scientific method?
400
This is what alchemists were trying to do.
What is turn different types of materials into gold?
400
This principle accounts for the possibility that events can occur randomly, so that scientific findings need to be repeated over and over before they can be considered verified.
What is probability?
400
Who was the control group in Jenner's experiments with cowpox and smallpox?
What is none?
400
This is the process wherein other scientists review the published work of a scientist and see if it can be duplicated or proven wrong in some way.
What is peer review?
500
This is what it means to be falsifiable.
What is that it is possible to prove a thing wrong.
500
This is the word for the old belief that living things could come from non-living things, such as wheat turning into mice, or rotten meat turning into flies.
What is spontaneous generation?
500
This is the tendency of humans who undertake science to want a certain result, and to let that desire shape their findings.
What is bias?
500
The final step in the scientific method, it is what Jenner did with his results, specifically to the Royal Society for Medicine.
What is communication?
500
How do horoscopes convince people that they are accurate?
What is they make general statements that apply to many people, and people tend to remember the things they got right? (or something to this effect - Mr. Carpenter's judgment call).