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Thinking like a scientist

The habits of finding out: be curious and look carefully, guess in ways you can test, test fairly, share your work, change your mind - and don't fool yourself, the easiest person to fool.

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You can name the habits of thinking like a scientist and say how each one stops you fooling yourself.

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    Foundation

    You can name the habits of thinking like a scientist and say how each one stops you fooling yourself.

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    Refining a theoryThinking like a scientist brings together every habit of the course.What science can't answerPart of thinking clearly is knowing where science stops.Intellectual humilityA scientist holds beliefs as firmly as the evidence allows and is glad to find a mistake.

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What's still between you and Thinking like a scientist, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.

  1. 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  4. 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  5. 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  6. 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  7. 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  8. 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  9. 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  10. 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  11. 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  12. 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  13. 13Fair testDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  14. 14ValidityDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  15. 15Deduction and inductionDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  16. 16Hasty generalisationDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  17. 17Sample sizeDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  18. 18ReplicationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  19. 19Strong and weak evidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  20. 20Degrees of confidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  21. 21Big claims need big evidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  22. 22Science corrects itselfDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  23. 23Updating beliefsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  24. 24Changing a big ideaDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  25. 25Scientific explanationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  26. 26Scientific theoryDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  27. 27FalsifiabilityDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  28. 28Predicting something newDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  29. 29Refining a theoryDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  30. 30What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  31. 31ScepticismDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  32. 32Knowing without certaintyDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  33. 33Intellectual humilityDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  34. 34Thinking like a scientistDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science

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