Scientific
Decision-making (the book for
Bio301D)
Chapter 1. Why science matters
Chapter 2. A template for
scientific inquiry
Chapter 3. How non-scientists use the
scientific method
Problems for the scientific method
Chapter 4. Models are the building blocks of
science
Chapter 5. All models are false. But
some are useful anyway
Chapter 6. Models of sex in condom testing
Chapter 7. Are you too intoxicated to drive
safely?
Chapter 8. Eradicating infectious
disease
Chapter 9. Health risks
Chapter 10. Data: Why error is unavoidable
Chapter 11. Reducing the error: a
template for ideal data
Chapter 11A. Where
do numbers come from?
Chapter 12. Drug and DWI testing protocols
ensure data accuracy
Chapter 13. DNA typing now and before
Chapter 14. Science and the criminal justice system
Chapter 15. Data presentation
Chapter 16. Is science logical?
Chapter 17. Uncertainty and random:
when is a conclusion justified?
Chapter 18. Correlations are hard to
interpret
Chapter 19. Controls
Chapter 20. Prisoners of
silence
Chapter 21. Experiments make the best
controls
Chapter 22. Some problems are
intrinsically difficult
Chapter 23. Biological correlates of being gay -
biological determinism?
Chapter 23A.
Established results that fade: system-wide bias in favor of 'new and exciting'
Chapter 24. Conflict and the corruption of
science
Chapter 25. Deliberate bias: how conflict creates bad science
Chapter 26. Our brains intrinsically mislead us
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