Psychics and Scientists

This Assignment will be based off of your first laboratory Assignment. Some of the material will be redundant with your planning form. Other questions will center around your understanding of the topics listed in this companion. However, as discussed in the section titled, Critical Thinking, the overall goal of this assignment is to assess and help you organize your understanding of science as a tool for discovery.

1. 1. Page I1.1 of, Investigating Biology, tells a story of the accounts of a scientist that is investigating a disappearance phenomenon related to the Quattro variegatus. Based on her hypothesis, order the observations made in the article according to importance; that is, which observations made most contributed to her hypothesis development.
   

2. 2.How is a question different from a hypothesis?
   

3. 3.Explain how the scientific method is cyclic.
   

4. 4.Given that a hypothesis is, “Two alternating forms of the Independent variable linked by a measurable event because of a plausible rational reason.” what two descriptors can we identify with the measured event.
   

5. 5.What is the opposite of thinking critically?