Your Friend Says to You, “You Do Not Need to Understand

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Essay

Your friend says to you, “You do not need to understand evolution to understand biology because evolution is just a theory.” How would you explain to your friend that a “theory” in science is not “just a theory”?

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Definitions:

Individual Journal Notes

Personal records or annotations made by individuals in journals for various purposes, including reflection, study, or record-keeping.

SPSS Syntax

The specific command language used in the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software to perform statistical analysis and manipulate data.

Cross-tabs

Short for cross-tabulation, a method used in statistics to analyze categorical data by creating a matrix that displays the frequency distribution of variables.

Categorical Data

Information that is divided into groups or categories which are mutually exclusive and cannot be ordered or ranked.