What Can We Learn from the Anthropologist Richard Scaglion's Failed

question 5

Multiple Choice

What can we learn from the anthropologist Richard Scaglion's failed attempt to explain Newton's law of gravity to his Abelam friends in Papua New Guinea?

• A) In trying to explain the concept, we need a textbook.
• B) His audience had no science background and hence could not understand the concept.
• C) We might not actually understand much of what we take as scientific fact in our society.
• D) Newton's law did not apply in this context.

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