Science quiz?

[asterroc]

Someone explain to me what half of these questions have to do with science.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

That'd be "nothing."

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Well CNN seems to divide the world into four categories: Pop Culture, Politics, Religion, and the all else category, Science.

So, of course those are science questions.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

i'd have thought the Pong question would be in Pop Culture...

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Naw, its more than two years old, which makes it history. History is a science, right?

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

most definitely no.

[q10.livejournal.com]

it is puzzling.

[blue102.livejournal.com]

If I could explain that, I might possibly also be able to explain what CNN has to do with news. But that one confounds me too, so... you're on your own!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, CNN's more newsy than, say, Fox... Not that it's saying much.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

History research however, does use the Scientific Method, although "experiment" for them takes the form of "read lots of manuscripts" or whatever.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

and how do they know that whoever wrote those manuscripts used the Scientific Method? history is written by the winners, right? doesn't sound very scientific to me.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

When I said manuscripts I meant primary sources (things written by people at the event). In history, primary sources are like raw data to scientists. I suppose things written a generation later or something would be equivalent to scientists looking at other people's data and reinterpreting it. To remind you, the Scientific Method is

1) Observation/Question
2) Hypothesis (a guess at why it happens)
3) Prediction (what data / primary sources would I need to see to prove me right?)
4) Experiment (get data / primary sources)
5) Conclusion (do the data / primary sources compare with my prediction?)