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I'll lobby for 'how' rather than 'why', and I'm wondering if there's a place for recording or reporting? Maybe that's a part of quantifying?
- Len
Len Adams
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I was going to suggest observation, too.
I think it's underrated. No one can come up with good questions, one
of the main structural components of science, without first
observing. I think students should be encouraged to spend more time
observing and wondering why things are the way they are.
To oversimplify, experiment is nothing without why and why is nothing
without experiment.
Jennie Dusheck
Science Writing & Editing
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At 3:16 PM -0400 6/28/11, Alexander F Wall wrote:
>I feel science is better described as the process of observation,
>quantification, evaluation, and prediction. These steps include the
>themes everyone has mentioned. What is this for?
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>Alex Wall
>Assistant to the Associate Director for Outreach
>Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth
>1259 Trumansburg Rd.
>Ithaca, NY 14850
>Phone: 607-273-6623 x31
>Fax: 607-273-6620
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