Course Description

CT221 Applied Scientific Reasoning 0.5

This is a skills-based course which aims to improve scientific literacy. In order to improve students' ability to critically evaluate scientific information, the course will strengthen informal logic skills, and introduce the concepts required for understanding statistical probability. Topics will include the difference between induction and deduction, causation and correlation, risk assessment, statistical significance, as well as the nature of measurement and error, sampling, distributions, control groups and double-blind experiments. (Cross-listed as CC221 and OL221.)

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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