Reflective Discussion Blog

     Designing Friday's experiment was very interesting and informative. Thinking everything through and making sure that each of us where on the same page was crucial to the design of our experiment. We had to be particular about our investigation in order to accurately replicate it, as well as have other scientists do the same. We distinguished independent and dependent variables in order to clearly indicate what we are measuring and any relevant variables that can't be changed. Establishing the control variables is very important because it is another indicator to compare one's results of their experiment with. Without it, the results can be quite contradictory or ineffective.      The investigation we designed is science because we are measuring a natural phenomenon that can also be easily replicated. It is like a science because what we are ultimately studying is the effect gravity has on the velocity of a small object over a short distance. The result...

     Science is the study of nature and the universe around us, which can be further broken down into numerous branches. Such examples include Astrobiology, Chemistry, Physics, and others.      Umbrellaology is not a science. It doesn't explain the universe, nor are there any groundbreaking discoveries waiting to be made in this field. This idea is more closely related to Psychology as it seeks to explain correlation, likelihood, and statistical data among people and what type of umbrella(s) they own.     The difference between Umbrellaology and Zoology for example is that Zoology explains the organisms on our planet in its entirety. In Zoology, there are plenty of unknown phenomena as well as species that haven't been discovered yet. Also, organisms have been around for billions of years, have had significant impact on our world, and will most likely continue to do so for billions of years to come. That isn't the case with Umbrellaology. Umbrella...

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