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an answer to why question

Explanation
things or quantities that vary

Variables
All scientists accept them

Laws
Observed relationship is unlikely to be due to chance.
we call the relationship between low-protein diets and the sex taboo a

Statistical association
Explanations of laws and statistical associations

Theories
something that cannont be observed or verified directly

Theoretical construct
shows that a theory seems to be wrong

Falsification
such predictions of what might be found

hypotheses
to transform theoretical predictions into statements that might be verified a researcher provides an

Operational definition
to say how it compares with other things on some scale of variation

measure

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ch1

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Updated

2012-09-27T23:57:30Z

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