BIOLOGY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brassica Juncea, Falsifiability, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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A collection of knowledge about the natural world. Catalog of what makes up the natural world. A method used to sleuth answers to mysteries about natural processes: based on hypothesis testing , uses empirical data to answer questions, limited to proposing natural causes. Can"t hypothesize that a butterfly is black and red because god made it that way because you can not disprove or prove that statement using science god is outside the natural realm. Test the hypothesis by attempting to show that it is not true: if you can"t demonstrate it is false, then it is accepted as true. Must be a way to demonstrate they are false. Falsifiability is a hallmark of scientific methods. A hypothesis must make predictions that can be unambiguously determined to be true or false. It must be precise enough to make predictions that can be expressed as if then statements. Those that are not ruled out are supported & tentatively accepted.
