| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Skepticism | An attitude of doubt. |
| Ethics | The rules that enable people to know right from wrong. |
| Personal bias | An outlook influenced by a person’s likes and dislikes. |
| Cultural bias | An outlook influenced by the beliefs, social forms, and traits of a group. |
| Experimental bias | A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely. |
| Objective | Describes the act of decision-making or drawing conclusions based on available evidence. |
| Subjective | Describes the influence of personal feelings on a decision or conclusion. |
| Deductive reasoning | A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation. |
| Inductive reasoning | Using specific observations to make generalizations. |
