Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
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ISBN: 9781506349206
Author: Bob Garrett, Gerald Hough
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
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To determine: The reason for which the scientists are so tentative.

Introduction: Science is the method of “acquiring knowledge” based on facts learned through experiments and observations. The applications and research on science help to improve the standard of life.

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The reasons for the tentativeness of scientists are given as follows:

  • Science is a very complex field that makes them tentative, as there is a possibility that a new data may change the interpretation of the previous studies.
  • Scientists base their conclusions on samples of subject’s data or samples of subjects. The law of probability shows that even the studies that are well designed occasionally contain a few or slight unusual participants, but the crucial shift in behavior may occur, which is not related to the variable in that study.

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