Scientific Reasoning Prediction

What is the difference between a prediction and a test

• a prediction is a specific statement and a test is a actual experiment

• A prediction is what the doctors gives you in her clinic, and a test is what the weatherman gives you each evening.

• A prediction is a possible answer to the question, and a test is what you take at the end of the semester in class

• A prediction is what a fortune teller gets paid for, and a test is what you give to your friends to make sure they are still your friends.

What is a hypothesis?

• Your best “educated guess” of what the answer to your question will be.

• An untestable statement.

• An experiment.

• Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth.

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What is a prediction

• Just another word for a hypothesis.

• To force a conclusion based on many data.

• What you think will be the outcome of your experiment or data collection.

• Another word for observation.

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What is the last step in the scientific method?

• Hypothesis formation

• Communication of results

• Conclusion

• Observation

What is the difference between a question and a hypothesis?

• A question is an assumption and the hypothesis is the answer to the assumption.

• A question is what you end up with after the test and the hypothesis is a summary of the conclusions.

• A question is the summary of data collected and the hypothesis is the interpretation of the data

• A question follows from an interesting observation and the hypothesis is an educated guess or answer to that question

What is the first step in the Scientific Method?

• Prediction

• Hypothesis

• Observation

• Test

How do you come up with a good question?

• From the predictions.

• By making an interesting observation.

• By testing the data.

• Assume that you know everything.

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How do you make a conclusion?

• You compare the data from your experimental results to the prediction they tested.

• You keep making different tests until they show what you want to see.

• You guess what the results should be.

• You look at your hypotheses and choose which one you like best.

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Why do you usually need more than one hypothesis for a question?

• If you reject your sole hypothesis you have nothing left.

• A prediction always needs more than a single hypothesis.

• Observations trick you into trying only one hypothesis.

• Hypotheses always come in pairs.

Lying in bed you notice that you get cold every time your brother opens the door. This is most closely associated with which step in the scientific method?

• Developing a test

• Making an observation

• Forming a hypothesis

• Conclusion