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What is the empirical method for acquiring knowledge that characterizes the development of science?
What is the empirical method for acquiring knowledge that characterizes the development of science?
- Careful observation and applying rigorous skepticism (correct)
- Refinement of hypotheses without experimental findings
- Formulating hypotheses based on intuition
- Relying on cognitive assumptions for interpretation
What is involved in the scientific method as distinguished from a definitive series of steps applicable to all scientific inquiries?
What is involved in the scientific method as distinguished from a definitive series of steps applicable to all scientific inquiries?
- Refinement of hypotheses without experimental findings
- Testability of hypotheses and experimental, measurement-based statistical testing (correct)
- Formulating hypotheses based on intuition
- Relying solely on cognitive assumptions for interpretation
What does the scientific method involve in terms of formulating hypotheses?
What does the scientific method involve in terms of formulating hypotheses?
- Based on cognitive assumptions
- Via deduction, without careful observation
- Based on intuition without observation
- Via induction, based on careful observations (correct)
What can distort how one interprets the observation according to the scientific method?
What can distort how one interprets the observation according to the scientific method?
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What are the principles of the scientific method in relation to experimental findings?
What are the principles of the scientific method in relation to experimental findings?
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