Thinking Critically

Research is important because with out research you don't really know real stats of things. With research we can also find out about somethings that people dont really know is out there, or even something as simple as a volleyball game and taking stats for it for when the converence needs it to decide first all-team or second all-team of lucky enough to make honorable mention.

That leads me to the research that is relevant to my life. Volleyball is a big part of my life and my coaches are always keeping stats. Hopefully at the end of the season the other Marawood Conference well do some research and find me on the stats and make me 1st all-team but if i don't it's also OK. For softball i made honorable mention and the Marawood Conference did research on all of the girls that were in the sport and even though i didn't make an all-team I still got honorable mention.

One of the things that I have learnt are the three main components of the scientific attitude are a curious eagerness, skeptical scrutinize competing ideas, and an open-minded humility before nature. This is important because this attitude carries into everyday life as critical thinking, we need to have critical thinking in life if you want to do good at things. The second thing I learnt is that Psychological theories organize observations and imply predictive hypotheses. Then after constructing precise operational definitions of their procedures, and the researchers test their hypotheses, validate and refine the theory. It is important to have this theory for others to know what scientist do when they research, then for us, the people, can learn from them and know the correct way to research. The last thing I have learnt is that we have illusory correlations. Illusory correlations are random events that we notice and we have the sense of false infomation . Patterns or sequences occur naturally in sets of randon data, but we see them as meaningful connections. It's important to know that we do or can have these illusory correlations so when someone tells us that we aren't putting together the right pieces of the puzzle we can later understand why.