Scientific Thinking Crossword
Across
- 7. Moral principles
- 10. Information collected during an inquiry
- 11. A result that's not likely to occur at random
- 12. A system where experts check one another's work and make sure it meets the standards for scientific quality
- 13. The point when an idea with a strong base of evidence gains broad acceptance by scientific experts
- 15. A collection of peer reviewed articles written by experts to report the results of a study
- 16. A substance with no effect that is used as a control in studies
- 18. An outcome that's measured to understand its relationship to the independent variable
- 20. An uncontrolled factor that influences the outcome of a study
- 21. When people make judgements based on the information that is easily available
- 22. Group that is unchanged in an experiment or study
- 23. A scientific procedure to test a hypothesis
- 24. A trial in which neither the participants nor scientists know which is the control group and which is the experimental group
Down
- 1. One of the main scientists behind germ theory
- 2. When our decision making is influenced by beliefs and patterns we aren't aware of
- 3. Mental shortcuts that helps us solve problems quickly
- 4. The middle value of a range of values
- 5. A variable that can be changed so its effects can be observed
- 6. Withdrawing a claim
- 8. A relationship between two or more variables
- 9. Discipline where you collect and study numerical data
- 14. Gathering evidence by observing events that have happened and using that evidence to answer questions
- 17. The most commonly presented data point
- 19. The average found by adding each data point and then dividing by the number of data points