This week you will utilize your understanding of critical thinking and the scientific method to test proverbs.
This week you will utilize your understanding of critical thinking and the scientific method to test proverbs.
Assignment:
This week you will utilize your understanding of critical thinking and the scientific method to test proverbs. For this assignment, you need to:
- identify the theory that underlies the proverb or rule of thumb, and
- generate a testable hypothesis, and suggest a possible strategy (descriptive, correlational, or experimental) to test the hypothesis. You need to fully explain your research strategy. If the method is experimental, you should identify independent and dependent variables and specify operational definitions.
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Examples of proverbs include:
- “Birds of a feather flock together.”
- “Opposites attract.”
- “The grass is always greener on the other side.”
- “A letter takes three times as long to write as it does to say.”
- “The more languages you know, the easier it is for you to learn a new one.”
- “Wearing dark clothes on the bottom and light clothes on the top is usually more visually appealing than the reverse.”
- “It takes four hours to come down from your last cup of coffee.”
- “As family income rises, the ratio of women’s shoes to men’s shoes increases accordingly.”
- “The self-employed are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who work for others.”
- “The shorter a word, the more meanings it has.”
- “Don’t change your first guess on a multiple-choice test when checking over your answers.”
You are not limited to this list of proverbs, these are provided to give you some ideas.
Assignment Expectations:
- Length:
- 500-750 words
- References:
- no references required
- Format:
- save your reflections as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx)
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.