Short Answer Questions Instructions: In your own words, answer or explain the following.
Your answers can serve as a brief summary for chapter 2.
1. What role does observation play in scientific inquiry?
2. Why is it crucial to define terms prior to making a set of observations?
3. How does a fact differ from an assumption? Can assumptions be factual?
4. What role can comparative information play in the process of making a set of observations?
5. What is confirmation bias?
6. What effect can expectation and belief have on observation?
7. What are the defining features of an extraordinary claim?
8. What is an anomaly? Why is the discovery of an anomalous phenomena important for science?
9. Why do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?
Attachment:- Chapter 2.rar