The scientific method - vocabulary

Here is the list of words we looked at in class. Do some work with them - look them up in a dictionary, you can go back to the video to see how they were used and try to make your own sentences.

Be ready with your own examples of confirmation bias.

incident

every now and then = sometimes

cocoa

whipped cream / to whip sth

sink / sank / sunk

to apply

to suspend sth/sb

“Either the laws of physics that apply everywhere in the universe are suspended in your coffee shop or you didn’t put whipped cream on my cocoa.”

indignant

to his credit, rather than argue, he intended to prove me wrong

scooped whipped cream, popped it in my cocoa,

to float

skimmed milk

to come up with a theory / hypothesis

to verify a hypothesis

CONFIRMATION BIAS

biased