SCIENTIFIC HABITS OF MIND

CURIOUS Good scientists are endlessly curious Jane Goodall Spent years studying a troop of chimpanzees in Africa

SKEPTICAL Don’t believe everything you are told. 19th century doctors thought that men and women breathed differently Men used diaphragm, women used ribs Women’s clothes forced them to breathe differently Other examples?

OPEN TO NEW IDEAS Keep an open mind about the way the world works Goes hand in hand with skepticism

INTELLECTUALLY HONEST Consider that your hypothesis may be wrong. Rely on the data

IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE Allow yourself to come up with new ideas See patterns where others do not Imagine things that others have not Expand the boundaries of what we know EXAMPLE: John Snow Cholera epidemic in London in 1854, public water, made a map to find source