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Is psychology a science? How does it differ from the traditional sciences? How is it similar? Psychology is defined as the study of the human mind and its functions the mind is studied through experimentation and observation and just like the other sciences, needs empirical evidence, therefore, it is a science. There has always been a large debate about it though because the mind is such a tricky topic, some people even go on to call it an art which they back up with valid points. Psychology is different from many other sciences because it's less concrete. For example in chemistry, biology and physics most things we learn about are laws, well in Psychology there are no laws that have been discovered yet. Because the mind is such a sensitive thing laws are tricky because there could always be one outcast, the same doesn't apply for the other sciences though because if we are told that the mass of one Oxygen atom is 15.999 g/mol, we could never find one Oxygen atom that wasn't 15.999 g/mol. As there are differences there are also similarities between Psychology and other sciences. One similarity as stated before is that psychology as all other sciences need empirical evidence to support claims and make theories and, for other sciences, laws. Another similarity is that things like "common sense" and popular opinion aren't always the best to use to find answers you're looking for. Wade, C., & Tavris, C. (2008). Psychology. 9th ed. / Carole Wade, Carol Tavris. Upper Saddle Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

My Passion For Science My passion for science and plants began early in my childhood and has grown substantially to that which energizes me to chase after higher goals. I used to obsessively search for information on wild plants that were edible and had medicinal properties. Now, I find that I am continually amazed by research on the photosynthetic pathway along with biochemistry within plants in general. I was, and still am, enthralled by the idea that so much knowledge and novelty is within the organisms that I had appreciated since I was young. I believe that this passion was driven further by being able to compare, for myself, a life spent in remedial labor and one with scientific exploration. Needing to work in my family's business for years out of necessity placed me in a position where I saw how each action could either draw me from or towards a better lifestyle. These experiences have personally shown me the value in a program like the Leadership Alliance, whose purpose offers a means to be a part of a diverse cohort striving toward leadership in the world. Having the opportunity to be included in a community with such a goal and momentum would be phenomenal. It would allow me to continue pursuing graduate and post–graduate level education while also refining me into a monumental force in the field of scientific research. I desire to pursue my passion of photosynthesis, plants, and biochemistry to serve the world with a team of researchers. An academic appreciation and respect of science Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Scientific Method in Real Life Essay Scientific method paper Part I. It was the finals of the 2004 swimming state championships. I was seated second in the 100– yard individual breaststroke. My heart was pounding as I swam my warm up laps. I would have to drop about a second or so to have any shot at the title and the gold. I hopped out of the warm up pool, and headed over to grab my towel and work out a strategy plan with my coach. The first order of business was to address the main problem. I needed to win. My coach had gathered information on my competition. We knew her best personal times, the way she trained, and how much she had rested for this meet. From all of this info being hurriedly spoken to in my ear, as I made my way to the blocks, enabled me to ...show more content... Then it was time to test the hypothesis , make an experimental design, and make our observations. I made my move on the third lap, and ended up winning the race. Here the actual race was the experimental design, from which my coach and I were able to make the observations that sense I won, our hypothesis was indeed correct. We could have made a graph showing all the racers in the race if we would have liked. We then were able to support the hypothesis, and also publish any types of results we would have liked. My personnel experience coincides with the scientific method all the way through. We unknowingly pretty much did all of the steps in the scientific method on our own accord. The ones left out such as the graphs were not necessary for my specific problem. Part II. I am currently dealing with the problem of cooking a salmon dinner for my boyfriend. I am a good cook, and really good baker, but I am not as familiar nor as comfortable using the grill. This would be my problem. I need to do a good job grilling salmon for him for our anniversary dinner. So I first need to identify the problem at hand, which is needing to cook a successful meal. Next, the scientific method states that I need to collect information on how to accomplish this task. I went to the local bookstore and bought a book on ways to grill your favorite foods. Now it would be time for me to form my hypothesis. My hypothesis is that if I grill the salmon for 20 minutes on 450 Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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The Scientific Method is the approach that scientists use to investigate some phenomena. It's a standard technique to find cause and effect of a particular problem. I am going to introduce how the scientific method works using interesting research paper "Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation, the Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment, and Obesity among Blacks and Mexican Americans". There are a series of steps that scientists used to understand the problem. The first step of the scientific method is observation of phenomena. The authors of article observed a high rate of obesity. In such a case they began their investigation with making a number of different observations concerning obesity. So once they decided what to investigate, the ...show more content... Goal of the experiment was to determine the effect of racial and ethnic residential segregation, the neighborhood socioeconomic environment on level of obesity. So to know if our hypothesis is correct was used cross–sectional data of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey on approximately 5000 black and Mexican–American adult participants who was living in disadvantaged segregated neighborhoods (1999–2006). These areas were chosen for the experiment because they implied as poor with limited access to health–promoting resources. Segregation could impact the obesity level, which had increased for blacks and Mexican Americans. So to prove the hypothesis was conducted experiment which determines the impact of racial/ethnic segregation with limiting opportunities on the level of obesity. During the experiment were calculated obesity body mass index and were identified participants who were obese in areas of black and Mexican American segregations. Having carefully recorded data is very important during the experiment because it could lead to more correct conclusion. So for accurate recording of observation some of participants were excluded from the experiment because was missing the information about their height or weight, educational level, income, or because some of them were Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

Reflection Paper On Science And Science Reflection Statement Before taking this course, I had never questioned how to characterize science. In elementary school I was taught that "good" science experiments use the scientific method so that they are replicable. I had always seen science as a source of reliable information. I certainly questioned certain findings, but I held the belief that there was such a thing as "good science ." I thought that "good science" transcended any subjectivity and was indisputable. These notions I had were called into question in Anthropology of Science. We started by looking into the history of science. Throughout lectures, we studied epistemology and different trends in scientific discovery. These classroom lectures were complemented with discussions of Thomas Kuhn and other scholars, such as Emily Martin and Michael Carrithers, who have theorized about scientific research . During that time, I personally began deconstructing my image of science being on a pedestal when it comes to scholarly findings. I acknowledged that there were ways for culture to influence science. When I read the assigned ethnographies God's Laboratory and Alien Ocean by Elizabeth Roberts and Stefan Helmreich, respectively, I was able to see exactly how clearly the theories about science were visible when anthropologists studied scientific communities. The connections were even more visible to me when we got to apply the theories ourselves through our Ethnography of Science class project. As a class, we Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Value of Science Essay 3/14/2013 Values Science is undoubtedly a very important part of growing as the human race. It has improved our lives drastically from the first stone tools, to iPods and cars we drive. But what is it really that matters when it comes to science? Material things are not the only things that science gives humanity. Richard Feynman explains his point of view of the values of science, and on how science is used to create things beneficial and afflicting, how the values behind science are affected by society, and how science affects people. The very first point brought up is morality . Science is not morally oriented to do good or bad and can easily do either. Feynman referenced a Buddhist proverb he heard while visiting Honolulu, "To ...show more content... For example, recently we had a large hoopla about stem cell research because of the supposed "farming babies". When in reality, the stem cells were in vitro fertilized eggs from artificially inseminated parents that would have been thrown away. Those extra fertilized eggs contained cells that have the capability of creating any cell in the human body, and with the future possibility of growing replacement/repair body parts of patients; it would have been a huge leap in the medical field. But because of our own ignorance to the science behind it, we effectively closed the continuum of scientific progress. Feynman wrote a small poetic section putting into perspective how great and complicated humans are, but showing how miniscule they are compared to the universe. Also, how it is a "religious experience" to have you put into perspective through science itself. He says that artists and singers won't sing about it because not everyone can understand the science, but the scientists who can explain it. The last value of science is the methodology behind being a scientist. Feynman explains how all scientists have lots of experience with "ignorance and doubt" and after time, effort, testing and further degrees of uncertainty, subjects can still are unsure, with doubt, and uncertainty. Logic, data, critical thinking and reasoning can only be as important of understanding. The understanding of the numerous struggles within science has been Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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The Scientific Method Essay The Scientific Method is the standardized procedure that scientists are supposed to follow when conducting experiments, in order to try to construct a reliable, consistent, and non–arbitrary representation of our surroundings. To follow the Scientific Method is to stick very tightly to a order of experimentation. First, the scientist must observe the phenomenon of interest. Next, the scientist must propose a hypothesis , or idea in which the experiments will be based around. Then, through repeated experimentation, the hypothesis can either be proven false or become a theory . If the hypothesis is proven to be false, the scientist must reformulate his or her ideas and come up with another hypothesis, and the experimentation begins again. This ...show more content... Furthermore, flies were observed laying eggs where the maggots formed. Thus, he concluded that maggots are the result of flies, not spontaneous generation. He then called the principles behind his experiment "Metodo Scientifico" or The Scientific Method . The first cases of what would be considered properly using the Scientific Method can be found earlier, though, back in the studies of Galileo, early in the 17th century. He first observed that heavy objects gain speed as they fall. He then proposed, or hypothesized, that the rate of falling of massive objects was proportional to the distance that the object has fallen. Following the Scientific Method, he tested his hypothesis and found it to be false, since objects falling unequal distances do not fall in the same amount of time, as his hypothesis led to. Since his hypothesis failed, he made a new one, which proposed that the rate at which an object falls is directly proportional to the time the object has spent falling. This was tested by rolling balls down an inclined plane and calculating the speed and time values from those observations. Later, these experiments led to the discovery of the gravitational constant g, and a better understanding of the Scientific Method. The Method has been used many times since Galileo conducted his experiments, and it has been considered a valid way of conducting experiments since Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

Scientific Method Step Essay Scientific Method Matching Exercise Resource In Part I, match each example from Column 2 with the correct step of the scientific method in Column 1. Explain the reasoning for your choice in Part II. Part I Column 1: Scientific Method Steps __g_ Observe __c_ Ask a question __a_ Create a hypothesis __b_ Conduct an experiment __d_ Collect data __f_ Interpret results __e_ Report results Column 2: Examples of Tasks 1) a) A scientist, based on his observation of the pond, believes that if a pond is exposed to the waste of an industrial plant, then the growth of algae will be accelerated. 2) b) In her laboratory, a scientist pours a vial of waste water, collected from the industrial plant, and adds it to a dish containing pond water. A ...show more content... Information that is gathered and analyzed by the collection of information investigated. Why, when, what, and how does the information work or does not work. 3) The "Examples of Tasks" I selected for the Scientific Method Step: "Create a hypothesis" is accurate because: The creation of a hypothesis are the answers of the questions that are formulated through why, when, what, and how. This an educated guess based on the observation and questions asked during the observation and questions asked. 4) The "Examples of Tasks" I selected for the Scientific Method Step: "Conduct an experiment" is accurate because: Conducting experiment, is when the scientist have questions they want answers to, also wanting to

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know how things work. This will mean to finding out the facts or to come up with a new theory. 5) The "Examples of Tasks" I selected for the Scientific Method Step: "Collect data" is accurate because: As the observation of algae, the information must be recorded as how it is seen. The information that is collected during the process of the experiment, are not to be altered from what is observed. This is a recording of all of what has been viewed at the time of growth, color or any changes. 6) The "Examples of Tasks" I selected for the Scientific Method Step: "Interpret results" is accurate because: Interpret results, is Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

Science As Product And Science SECTION 1 1a. Science as product. The aim of science is to produce knowledge, to understand and explain some aspects of the world around us. However, scientific disciplines differ in terms of their objects of study as a science as product. Knowledge as scientific based on two criteria: science as product and science as process l a science as product knowledge that give us more explanations or descriptions. The first type of science as product: scientific VS non–scientific questions. Scientific questions are questions that can be answered by making observation that identify the conditions under which certain events occur. And the answers to each questions mast take a particular form that meet the requirements of discretion, explanation, prediction and understanding. Then, non–scientific questions cannot be observable by observation which is the opposite of scientific questions for instance: (morality–pornographic). The second type is knowledge as description. Scientific knowledge is by definition verifiable. Knowledge as description divided into two parts: conceptual definition (in literature review) and operational definition (for using and applied in methods and instruments). Let?s explain each one of them clearly. The descriptive function of research relies strongly on instruments for observation and measurement. Researchers spend a great amount of time to develop instruments. Once developed these instruments are used to describe phenomena studied by researchers (open PH.D Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Ethics in Science Essay What do you think of when you hear or see the word "science"; test tubes, Einstein, Space? Science is "generally taken as meaning either (a) the exact sciences, such as chemistry, physics, etc., or (b) a method of thought which obtains verifiable results by reasoning logically from observed fact" (Orwell). Scientists are those who study science by scientific method. These "men of science", which Orwell describes as "a biologist, and astronomer, perhaps a psychologist or a mathematician", "work by means of induction and deduction, and that by the help of these operations, they, in a sort of sense, wring from Nature certain other things, which are called natural laws, and causes, and that out of these, by some cunning skill of their own, ...show more content... This undoubtedly demonstrations the pros and cons of inventions made through science. There are people who abuse medicine, and other creations from science, for numerous different reasons. Things like guns and nuclear weapons were formed to protect, but with the downside of killing others. With all of this this being said, should there be a limit to things we make? More importantly, does science have an ethical responsibility to humanity? I think to answer that question, we need to start with deciding if scientists have an ethical responsibility to humanity. As the saying goes, with knowledge comes power and with power comes responsibility. However, there can be no limitation on the knowledge obtained from science. Instead, we must limit what arises from knowledge and power. What are some responsibilities of scientists and the rest of the population? Well, to start on the broadest sense, science should only be used for the absolute necessary improvement of humanity. It is our ethical responsibility to not take advantage of science to further the advancement of military power, as we have done with the creation of atomic and nuclear bombs. Is it responsible to use science for fame, fortune and glory? No, and it is not acceptable, but it is common for people to do so. If, for some reason, we had the option to save 80% of endangered wildlife through scientific means, but with the consequence of harming the atmosphere, would it be ethical to continue on? We would have Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Scientific Theory Essay Scientific Theory A scientific theory is a well–substantiated explanation of some aspects of the natural world, based on a body of knowledge that has been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Scientist creates scientific theories from hypothesis that have been corroborated through the scientific method , then gather evidence to test their accuracy. The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain, which is measured by its ability to make falsifiable predictions with respect to the phenomena. Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive for of scientific knowledge. The scientific method involves the proposal and testing of hypotheses, by deriving ...show more content... Theories are the main goal in science and no explanation can achieve a higher rank. (to the belief that "theories" become "laws" over time). In some cases, theories can unify. Two or more theories can be replaces by a single theory which explains the previous theories as approximations or special cases, comparable to the way a theorys is connecting explanation for many confirmed hypotheses: This is reffered to as Unification of Theories. Both scientific laws and scientific theories are produced from scientific methods through the formation and testing of hypotheses, and can predict the behavior of the natural world. Both are typically supported by observation and experimental science. However, scientific laws are descriptive accounts of how nature will behave under certain conditions. Scientific theories are broader in scope, and give overarching explanations of how nature works and why it exhibits certain characteristics. They are supported by evidence from many different sources, and may contain one or more laws. Both scientific laws and scientific theories come from the scientific method through the formation and testing of hypotheses, and can predict the behavior of the natural world. Both are usually well supported by observations and/or experimental evidence. However laws are descriptive accounts of how nature will behave under certain conditions. Assumption is a Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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scientific literacy Essay Scientific literacy Introduction and audience When talk about science, perhaps majority of us think it is less relative with real life. However, as society developed, science encompassed us everywhere. This situation forces everyone to acquire the ability to learn and understand science. Some may think that, scientific literacy is what a scientist should have and nothing about normal people, however it is just too narrow. Look around the surroundings of us, everything is conned with science . Also, we encounter science in our normal life as well. Therefore, the ability to acquire and understand science is necessary and important, which is called scientific literacy. Scientific literacy is the foundation of science and technology ...show more content... Also, they might doubt the ingredient of their product (thinking creatively). What were they made of, would that influence their health? Finally, we made the decision, it was a deceptive advertising and we wouldn't purchase it(problem solved). This is the one typical example process of using scientific way to solve problems. So far, we could tell scientific literacy is useful, but does it necessary for us? The next part is telling why it is necessary and the basic science knowledge to acquire it. Science knowledge is necessary As the rapid development of science and technology, everyone in society is required to acquire higher scientific literate skill. What if one doesn't acquire scientific literacy, not only he/she could not engage in science study or research, but would encounter difficulties in normal life. For example, when we want to look for a book in the library, it would be so simply if we check it online, copy the index of the book and then go find it directly. However, people who don't have the ability to acquire computer skill would have difficult. Therefore, scientific literacy is necessary in contemporary life. There is no doubt that science knowledge is the significant part of scientific literacy. Therefore, learning science is the first step. What is science? Just taking a look at our surroundings, it not hard to find that science is everywhere. Simply example like how the lamp is lighted, which Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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The Impacts of Science on Human Life Essay Technology is evolving and scientists are frequently developing new concepts and theories, improving our life style and making the world ultimately a better place to live in. Science has led to many extraordinary inventions, filling our human mind with vast amount of knowledge and intelligence. For example, many types of new planets have been discovered recently. Although people have been living in the world for a very long time, it is quite recent that these planets have been discovered using telescope and other mechanisms. These newly found planets are identical to earth and believed to be supporting life, which I have found interesting. However, without the contributions of technology , it would have never been possible. Moreover, ...show more content... For example, Malaysia was not a very wealthy country economically but the improvements of technology have helped their financial system in a quite extensive level. In the past, they were not stable in a financial system until the effects of complex machinery and the contributions of modern technology have rationalized their economy. In the essay, The Enchanted Forest, Bill Reid, the author, also supports this point by saying, "We all carried ashore with us the knowledge that the wave of technological assault that had begun on the other island and changed most of the continent" (Reid 319).Basically, Bill states that how technology has changed most of North America several ways. In addition, this quote is related to the essay because it illustrates how impotent science and technology is, in terms of rationalizing our economy. In view of these aspects, I would say most people would agree that it has indeed made our world a better place. Most importantly, the contributions of science and technology have made our lives more delightful. In our everyday life, we use many ordinary things, which have been modified through improvements. These simple inventions have modernized the way we do things given that most people are generally depended upon them. For example, a cell phone is considered as an important item due the service it provides. In the past, when cell phone was not invented, people had to go all the way to the person's place in order to deliver the Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Examples Of Scientific Racism "The idea that human populations can be divided into distinct racial groups based on physical differences dates back many centuries." (Paragraph 3 "Racism") This is known as Scientific Racism. Scientific Racism is the belief that racism is justified by scientific bases, which gives people confidence that it is proper to discriminate others (usually based on their race , religion, or beliefs), even though it is not appropriate (Oxford Dictionary). This belief is actually "pseudoscientific." Pseudoscience is "any of various methods, theories, or systems, such as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, which are considered as having no scientific basis." (Dictionary.com). Scientific Racism can also be related to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper ...show more content... Hitler gathered thousands of Germans and brainwashed them into believing that Jews were bad and they needed to make a super race. "...Hitler's adviser in the early stage of his entry into politics, who said that no people would have left the Jews alive if they had known what the Jews' true nature was and what goals they had set themselves." (Paragraph 47 "Racism"). This is a preposterous statement because the Jews had no true nature besides every other human (To live a happy healthy life). Statements like this are how Adolf Hitler and his advisors brainwashed people into believing that the Jews were terrible people. This is a very relatable statement to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Throughout this novel there is discrimination of blacks solely based on the color of their skin. People believed they were, stupid, and were criminals. "Don't see how any jury could convict on what we hear–" (Page 238 To Kill a Mockingbird) "Judge Taylor was polling the jury: "Guilt... guilty... guilty... guilty..."" (Page 240 To Kill a Mockingbird). Although all the proof showed that Tom Robinson was innocent, due to his black skin and the white skin of the defendant he pleaded guilty. This is a great example of how just because of his race, like the Jews in the Holocaust, he was convicted unrightfully. Discrimination like this prohibits these people from having access to the same social equality that people who are not being discriminated against Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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My Love For Science Nothing had influenced my life more than the beauty of science. The subject is just so fascinating and really catches my eye as it helps explain virtually everything around me, it helps me understand why such things are. It is extremely captivating and always makes me eager for more learning and understanding. However, the real experience lies in the unknown, the regions of science where research stills needs to be done, where more understanding needs to occur, where science can be used for the well–being of the planet. Since the summer of 2011, I have been deeply in–love with the beauty known as science. During that summer, I was introduced to the environmental/biological sciences at a summer camp which left a deep impact on me. I carried these learnings to my fifth–grade year in which science and college were introduced to me, and with this knowledge , I made two goals that I have left my older self: to become a sort of scientist that will contribute to the world and to get into a dream university. From then, I have known that my destiny was a science–related one (I didn't know exactly what type at that point, only that it would be done). Then came middle school in which I went to a school focused on environmental sciences, this is the place where my love for science was cemented as I learned about all types of sciences and got to understand them in depth or for the first time in my life. I also learned about opportunities that could further me in my quest to complete my Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Positivism Essay Positivism Positivism is a scientific approach to sociology (the science of society As Keat and Urry ('social theory as science', 1975) note: 'Positivism is concerned only with observable phenomena. It involves establishing law–like relations between them through the careful accumulation of factual knowledge. This occurs by means of observation, experimentation, comparison and prediction.' The terms' sociology ' and 'positive philosophy' (positivism) were both coined by Auguste Comte (the founder of Sociology), an educated philosopher, born on January 19th 1798 in Montpellier, France. He grew up and studied after a great period of change. There had been the French revolution, the Industrial ...show more content... The three stages societies progress through are outlined below. Comte thought that society (and indeed the sciences) went through three distinct stages; Theological, Metaphysical and Positive. He thought when society had reached the end of the positivistic stage it would be Utopia where the world was ruled by experts in each field. The common person wouldn't need to make their own decisions as everything would be thought out for them. · THEOLOGICAL: Military. (Middle Ages) – Natural phenomena explained as being the will of God/supernatural forces – The family is basic social unit · METAPHYSICAL:Judicial (1300–1700) – Mysterious abstract forces employed to explain natural p Phenomena (e.g. a force in the object itself)

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– The state is social unit. · POSITIVISTIC:Industrial (1800+) – The last and highest stage – Scientific method /invariant laws describe and explain all phenomena After the basic law of the three stages is Comte's theory of the hierarchy of sciences. As humans progress through the above stages each dependant on the preceding, so do the sciences (hence all sciences contribute to sociology) Starting with the purest and simplest and ascending in complexity. · Mathematics · Astronomy · Physics Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Science Essay For some people science is the supreme form of all knowledge. Is this view reasonable or does it involve a misunderstanding of science or of knowledge? For many persons science is considered the supreme form of all knowledge, as science is based on facts and theories and it reaches its results through an approved scientific method. Consequently, it seems to be objective and thus more truthful and reliable. However, other persons argue that this is a misunderstanding of science. Hence, one should question what science and knowledge entail. Can there actually be some form of knowledge that overrules all other types of human knowledge? Is scientific knowledge actually always objective? Are there other types of knowledge of equal worth? This ...show more content... Thus, perception, in this case could be considered an important factor that makes a piece of knowledge supreme . One could then deduce that frogs have these organs and that most multi– cellular animals also have these organs, after having looked and compared a large sample. This is where reasoning, as a way of knowing, comes into use to make generalisations. And one can be quite sure that this fact is true since it has been seen, and at any moment in time, if someone dissects a frog, he/she will see these organs. In this example, there is very little room for human emotions/ bias to affect the perception, since one cannot argue that what's inside the frog's body is something other than its organs. On the other hand, there are other parts in the field of biology that are less supreme. Consider the example of a field study where a scientist is to investigate if leaves closer to the trunk of oak trees in Scania are larger than those being further away from the trunk. The biologist will make a plan on how to conduct the experiment, and since he cannot measure all leaves in all trees existing in Scania, the biologist will have to carry out the field study on a sample, which raises the question: what could be an appropriate sample? Most scientists agree that the best way to conduct a field study is being as random as possible. But how does one go about being random? Scientist may have different ways of reasoning on what would make an appropriate sample, but no way Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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The Scientific Method Of Everyday Life Essay Scientific method in everyday life:– Science plays an important part in our life. We have used science from stone age. Man observes and understands what he observes. This is a unique sense that he is born with. Agriculture is a scientific process. The man has learnt to sow seeds, water the land, add green manure to the soil and reap the harvest. Separating the paddy from the husk shows how clever he is. You might have observed that the women hold the pounded paddy in a flat plate and sift when the breeze blows. The heavy paddy falls near the person 's feet while the husk that is light flies and falls a few feet away. Thus paddy is separated from the husk. Man also has learnt from observation that the crops should be rotated to get back the lost nutrients of the soil. This is one of the scientific method we observe in everyday life. Gardening:– Man knows how to garden by observation. He knows that the sunlight and water are necessary for the seeds to germinate. He has learnt by experience that the soil should be rich for the plants to grow. He also has observed that the seed must be healthy to germinate. Man also has learnt from experience that diseased seed produce diseased plants. Hence he first checks the seed to see if it is healthy. The Chinese way to check the seed is to soak the seed that is selected for planting in salt water. If the seed floats on the water, it is discarded. If the seed goes to the bottom of the vessel, then it is healthy and can be used for Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Examples Of Scientific Controversy Scientific controversy is a disagreement among scientists and involve issues such as interpretation of data, ideas that are supported by evidence and which ideas are most pursuing. Controversies are an ongoing every field of science. An example of scientific controversy is scientists are arguing about the existence of mantle plumes, thin columns of hot rock that rise from the Earth's core to the surface and cause volcanic activity (Kerr, 2010). The controversial topics in science are: first and second laws of thermodynamics . The first thermodynamics of law deals with the total amount of energy in the universe and it doesn't change. Basically, the 1st law of thermodynamics is saying that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy can Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Reflection On Science And Technology This course has been designed in a way that makes learning stress–free and interactive. The way this class is being approached with a humanities emphasis, has allowed me to gather a real cultural approach to science and technology, and how it could be beneficial or even harmful to us if we are uninformed of its significance to our society. The elements implemented within the course have also allowed me to further my understanding within each topic we cover, as well as understand how scientific ideas and technological developments are important in social contexts. Any human created idea can be related to our society, either as a desire or as a necessity. Science and technology should belong to society as a necessity. As our society has evolved, both science and technology have become an interwoven facet of our day to day lives. Even though the class is only part of the way completed, I still feel like I have already been lastingly affected by the material. I have been able to use the different elements in class, such as the reading, class discussion, and blog posts on Yellow Dig to understand how science and technology are connected to our society in many ways. The incorporation of technology in the form of Yellow Dig, Canvas, and Slack have also enhanced my experience and interaction with the classroom. Without technology, learning and understanding material would take much longer than we are currently able to do. Our society can easily take for granted the immense impact Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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