The Advantage of Employing the Scientific Approach Over Other Ways

question 47

Multiple Choice

The advantage of employing the scientific approach over other ways of knowing about the world is that it

• A) allows scientists to show that the explanations we make for the actions we observe are always correct.
• B) allows one to rule out intuition and authority as sources of ideas about behaviour.
• C) provides an objective set of rules for gathering,evaluating,and reporting information.
• D) allows scientists the opportunity to show the public their findings are always correct.

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

In an experiment or study, the variable being tested and measured, expected to change as a result of variations in the independent variable.

Direction

In the context of statistics, it refers to the nature of the relationship between variables, indicating whether it is positive or negative.

Correlations

Statistical measures that describe the extent to which two variables change together.