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Overview:
Learn how scientists reuse and upcycle their data, while following graduate student Maria Viteri as she investigates ancient and modern small mammal communities.Author/Source:
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College Discipline:
Life Science, Nature and Process of Science Time:
20 minutes Concepts:
Correspondence to the Next Generation Science Standards is indicated in parentheses after each relevant concept. See our conceptual framework for details. - Scientists can test ideas about events and processes long past, very distant, and not directly observable.
- Raw data must be analyzed and interpreted before we can tell whether a scientific idea is likely to be accurate or inaccurate.
- Scientists try to be objective and work to identify and avoid bias.
- Different scientists may interpret the same data in different ways; data interpretation can be influenced by a scientist's assumptions, biases, and background.
- Researchers share their findings with the scientific community through scientific publications.
- Scientists aim for their studies to be replicable.
- Science depends on communication within the scientific community.
- Scientists scrutinize each other's work through peer review and other processes.
- Scientists are influenced by their personal experiences and cultures.
- Scientific research is often focused on topics with the potential to help meet societal needs.
- Scientific knowledge informs public policies and regulations that promote our health, safety, and environmental stewardship.
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