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Scientific Method
Error and Bias
Cowpox and Smallpox
Random Facts
100
This is a testable prediction based on prior knowledge and observations
What is a hypothesis
100
This is the number of variables that should be tested in an experiment at one time
What is one
100
These experiments happen in the test subjects natural habitat
What are natural experiments
100
This is the doctor that hypothesized that cowpox could protect someone from small pox
Who is Dr. Edward Jenner
100
T/F Science assumes that the world can be explained, given enough data and experimentation
What is TRUE
200
This is the broad explanation based on many experiments and high amounts of data.
What is a theory?
200
In this step, one would gather information by noticing specific details
What is observation
200
This is the likelihood something will happen just by chance
What is probability
200
This is the sample size of his original experiment
What is one
200
This is an example of spontaneous generation
What is mice coming from dirty clothes and wheat
300
This is "fake/false" science.
What is pseudoscience?
300
This was Dr. Jenner's hypothesis regarding cowpox and smallpox
What is that exposure to cowpox would protect you from smallpox
300
This is the probability you will flip tails on a quarter
What is 1/2 or 50%
300
Once a conclusion was reached, this is what Dr. Jenner did
What is shared his results
300
This is an example of pseudoscience
What is astrology, fortune telling, etc
400
This is the information you collect during an experiment.
What is data
400
This group in an experiment does NOT receive the independent variable
What is the control group
400
Blind experiments mean this
What is the test subjects don't know whether or not they received the variable
400
This is what the Royal Society of Medicine responded to Dr. Jenner.
What is increase your sample size
400
This is what you should be doing throughout the scientific method
What is consult prior knowledge
500
This means that an experiment can be repeated and that the results will be the same
What is reproducibility
500
This is the goal of every experiment and it should be shared with others
What is the conclusion
500
This is when the scientists and the test subjects don't know what they received or what the results should be
What is a double-blind experiment
500
This was ultimately decided from Dr. Jenner's research
What is that smallpox could be prevented by exposure to cowpox
500
Dr. Wakefield published that vaccines were related to autism. This is an example of this
What is scientific fraud