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Science Sense. Research Skills Menu. Psychological Tests for Student Use. The purpose of this website is to help students who wish to use copyrighted tests as part of their research project with that part of the project that is often most time consuming - the obtaining of permission to use the test. With student research often under extreme time constraints, even a small delay can be disastrous. So if test authors are hard to find or are slow to respond if found, the project may never get off the ground. There are only a limited number of tests on this website. Some are well known, others are not. The tests are all copyrighted but the test authors have given their permission to have their tests placed on the website with the knowledge that they will be downloaded and used by student researchers. Information about the validity and reliability of these tests is not included at this site. Robinson, J.P., Shaver, P.R., & Wrightsman, L.S.

For your information, I have listed a number of common questions that I have received in the past. 1. 2. 3. MTBOK: Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge. Glossary - ClinicalTrials.gov. This glossary will help you understand words or phrases frequently used on ClinicalTrials.gov. Many of these words are also used by clinical researchers and others in the same or similar manner. But the definitions below are provided to explain content on ClinicalTrials.gov only. For help with medical terms, see the MedlinePlus® Medical Dictionary. Study record managers should refer to the Protocol Data Element Definitions and the Basic Results Data Element Definitions for help with the data items required to register a study or submit results.

Indicates whether a clinical study allows people who do not have the condition or related conditions or symptoms being studied to participate in that study. (See also Accepts Healthy Volunteers data element on ClinicalTrials.gov.) A group of participants that receives an intervention that is considered to be effective. A clinical trial design strategy used to assign participants to an arm of a study. A general description of the clinical study arm.

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Common misconceptions about science I: “Scientific proof” Misconceptions about the nature and practice of science abound, and are sometimes even held by otherwise respectable practicing scientists themselves. I have dispelled some of them (misconceptions, not scientists) in earlier posts (for example, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder , beauty is only skin-deep , and you can’t judge a book by its cover ). Unfortunately, there are many other misconceptions about science. One of the most common misconceptions concerns the so-called “scientific proofs.” Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a scientific proof. Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science. Proofs have two features that do not exist in science: They are , and they are . In contrast, all scientific knowledge is and , and nothing is final. Further, proofs, like pregnancy , are binary; a mathematical proposition is either proven (in which case it becomes a theorem) or not (in which case it remains a conjecture until it is proven).

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