BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Traditional Knowledge
2 Mar 2018
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Looking both ways before crossing the street: hypothesis, prediction, test, repeat. They are bits of information that will help you live throughout your life. Scientific method: hypothesis and prediction that are testable. Prediction: a statement about the direction of a relationship proposed by a hypothesis (something about the future) Test: a methodology designed to falsify your hypothesis (or prediction) (cid:498)if you drink more beer there will be projectile vomiting(cid:499) (cid:498)if we lower co2 emissions we could help the climate change crisis(cid:499) Human technologies have increased the rate of climate change. The action of beer drinking could lead to projectile vomiting.
