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Procedures that eliminate sources of variation that may obfuscate study results.
The building blocks of scientific theory that describe the phenomena of interest.
Scientists use this when they show how hypotheses follow logically from theory.
Unanticipated findings give rise to new theories.
Adherents believe that human action has distinctive qualities that make the social sciences and natural sciences fundamentally different.
A way knowing or understanding the world that relies on what we experience through our senses.
A testable relationship that is less abstract than a theory.
Technical term for the meaning of scientific objectivity.
______ impart a sense of understanding to scientific explanations.
Scientists draw conclusions that go beyond the evidence.
The study or theory of what constitutes knowledge.
Scientific inquiry consists of the constant interplay between ______ and data.