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SOLVING EVERYDAY PROBLEMS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

THINKING LIKE A SCIENTIST

By: Angela T Mak, Don K Mak, Anthony B Mak

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Paperback | 5 January 2009

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This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems when no information is available for the present problem situation, how to increase our chances of success by redefining a problem, and how to extrapolate our capabilities by seeing a relationship among heretofore unrelated concepts.One should formulate a hypothesis as early as possible in order to have a sense of direction regarding which path to follow. Occasionally, by making wild conjectures, creative solutions can transpire. However, hypotheses need to be well-tested. Through this way, The Scientific Method can help readers solve problems in both familiar and unfamiliar situations. Containing real-life examples of how various problems are solved - for instance, how some observant patients cure their own illnesses when medical experts have failed - this book will train readers to observe what others may have missed and conceive what others may not have contemplated. With practice, they will be able to solve more problems than they could previously imagine.

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Preface	p. ix
Prelude	p. 1
The Scientific Method	p. 3
Edwin Smith papyrus	p. 3
Greek philosophy (4^th century BC)	p. 4
Islamic philosophy (8^th century AD-15^th century AD)	p. 6
European Science (12^th century AD-16^th century AD)	p. 7
Scientific Revolution (1543 AD-18^th century AD)	p. 9
Humanism and Empiricism	p. 13
The Scientific Method	p. 15
Application of the Scientific Method to Everyday Problem	p. 16
Observation	p. 17
External information	p. 21
Missed information	p. 21
Misinformation	p. 22
Hidden information	p. 27
No information	p. 32
Unaware information	p. 35
Evidence-based information	p. 37
Internal information	p. 37
Self-denied information	p. 38
Biased information	p. 39
Unexploited information	p. 40
Peripheral information	p. 42
Hypothesis	p. 45
Abduction	p. 55
Wild conjectures	p. 57
	p. 61
Experiment	p. 65
Experiment versus hypothesis	p. 79
Platonic, Aristotelian, Baconian, and Galilean methodology	p. 81
Recognition	p. 83
	p. 92
Problem Situation and Problem Definition	p. 97
Perspectives on different levels	p. 97
Perspectives on the same level	p. 98
Induction and Deduction	p. 107
Induction	p. 107
Deduction	p. 110
Alternative Solutions	p. 119
Lotion bottle with a pump dispenser	p. 137
Relation	p. 139
Creativity	p. 149
Ordinary thinking	p. 150
Creative thinking	p. 151
Knowledge	p. 151
Insight	p. 152
Unconscious mind	p. 153
Double helix	p. 154
Genetic material	p. 154
Watson and Crick at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge	p. 155
Rosalind Franklin at King's College, London	p. 158
The triple helix model	p. 159
The double helix model	p. 161
Creative thinking and Ordinary thinking	p. 164
Scientific Research and Scientific Method	p. 165
Can we be more creative?	p. 166
Mathematics	p. 169
Probable Value	p. 195
Epilogue	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 219
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SOLVING EVERYDAY PROBLEMS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

THINKING LIKE A SCIENTIST

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