Scientific Method
The Scientific Method is a step-by-step process to solve a __________
What is Problem?
Good scientists tend to be _______, meaning that they don't believe everything that they are told
What is Skeptical?
The collection and classification of data in the form of numbers
What is Statistics?
Representations of objects or systems.
What are Models?
Principles or standards that we consider important.
What are Values?
When you are making a(n) ____________, you collect information using your senses
What is an observation?
Scientists need to be _____ to new ideas, lest they fall into a rut of sameness and monotony.
What is Open
A group of similar things that a scientist is interested in learning about.
What is a Statistical Population?
Three-Dimensional models that you can touch.
What are Physical Models?
A conceptual model that provides a systematic process for making decisions
What is a Decision-Making Model?
A testable form of an observation
What is a Hypothesis?
A good scientist must have ___________ __________, being that they are willing to recognize that different results from the hypothesis may be correct, even if that makes them wrong.
What is Intellectual Honesty?
The number obtained by adding up the data for given characteristics and dividing this sum by the number of individuals
What is a Mean?
The most common examples of these are graphs and charts.
What are Graphical Models?
Watching the local news, reading newspapers, watching documentaries, and conducting interviews are all forms of __________ __________.
What is Gathering Information?
A procedure designed to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
What is an Experiment?
Scientists are not only open to new ideas, they must also be able to _________ them.
What is create, make, or conceive?
The relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population.
What is a Distribution?
A verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized.
Before making a final decision, you must first look into all possible outcomes, weigh pros and cons, and conduct surveys, all ways of _______ ___________.
What are Exploring Consequences?
The often numeric information gathered by scientists during an experiment is called ________
What is Data?
This trait found in scientists makes them naturally inquisitive and prompts experimentation
What is Curiosity?
A group of individuals or events selected to represent a population.
What is a Sample?
One or more equations that represent the way a system or process works.
What are Mathematical Models?
This value is defined as "the gain or loss of money or jobs"