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Scientific Thinking: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Open mind
      - Willingness to change mind if proven
    - - Skills for evaluating based on experience
      - Scientific thinking
        
        6 principles
        
        Replicability
        
        The results will happen again in another moment with the same experiment
        
        Study finds can happen to be found duplicates several times
        
        If not, it might be a one time thing, coincidence.
        
        extraordinary claims
        
        Scottish philosopher David Hume, 18th Century
        
        The more extraordinary the claim sounds=great evidence
        
        Example: Alien abduction
        
        Falsiability
        
        Sir Karl Popper
        
        capable of being disproved
        
        Non-imaginable outcomes may affect depending on different scenarios.
        
        occam’s razor
        
        14 th century British philosopher William of Occam
        
        Principle of parsimony
        
        Logical simplicity
        
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        correlations isn't causation
        
        2 things are associated with each other-one should cause the other
        
        correlation–causation fallacy.
        
        As we have variables
        
        Ruling out rival hypotheses
        
        having several explanations
        
        Example: Anxiety treatments
        
        EMDR studies
        
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