Scientific Thinking

by Robert M. Martin

Book Overview

Scientific Thinkingis a practical guide to inductive reasoning--the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin's writing confounds those who would think that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551111306
• ISBN13: 9781551111308
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"