BIO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alien Abduction, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Pseudoscience
15 Sep 2016
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Modern era of science began in 1660. Peer review, deeper levels of hypothesis testing. Interpret results, make conclusions: hypothesis supported or not supported; you accept or reject hypothesis. Generate new hypothesis if original is not supported. Methods of gaining truths about the natural world: Inductive reasoning - reasoning in which general principles are derived from particular facts or instances (speci c data allows you to conclude general principles) Example: darwin"s development of theory of evolution by natural. Deductive reasoning - (inference) general information allows you to predict speci cs about a general principle. Pseudoscience - hypothesis cannot be tested, and/or not falsi able. Every link in the chain must work. 09/07/2016 as number of re ghters at a re increases, so does the intensity of the. Anecdotal evidence: stories that involve unique events with a sample size of one or a very few. The results do not follow from a carefully designed test.
