Test Your Scientific Literacy

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Created by TRANSYLVANIAN on 11/30/1999

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Scientists usually expect an experiment to turn out a certain way.

Science only produces tentative conclusions that can change.

Science has one uniform way of conducting research called “the scientific method.”

When being scientific one must have faith only in what is justified by empirical evidence.

Science is just about the facts, not human interpretations of them.

To be scientific one must conduct experiments.

Scientific theories only change when new information becomes available.

Science is partly based on beliefs, assumptions, and the nonobservable.

Scientific theories are just ideas about how something works.

A scientific law is a theory that has been extensively and thoroughly confirmed.

Scientists’ education, background, opinions, disciplinary focus, and basic guiding assumptions and philosophies influence their perception and interpretation of the available data.

Scientific laws are absolute or certain.

Scientists accept the existence of theoretical entities that have never been directly observed.

Scientists construct theories to guide further research.

Scientists invent explanations, models or theoretical entities.

A scientific law describes relationships among observable phenomena but does not explain them.

An accepted scientific theory is an hypothesis that has been confirmed by considerable evidence and has endured all attempts to disprove it.

A scientific law will not change because it has been proven true.

Imagination and creativity are used in all stages of scientific investigations.

Scientific theories are explanations and not facts.

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