Scientific terminology
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Significant in statistics means something narrower than in everyday English
What the word model means in climate science vs in machine learning
Statistical significance is not clinical importance: naming the difference
Why we still say female scientist when we never say male scientist
When a field's name changes: from natural philosophy to physics
Theory vs hypothesis: why scientists and the public use the same word differently
What vocabulary problems arise when engineers and clinicians co-author a study?
How the word scientist was coined in 1834 to describe people who were not yet a profession
Why paraphyletic groups like reptiles survive in everyday language
"When you can measure what you are speaking about" - the full Kelvin sentence
Precision vs accuracy: two words that are constantly used interchangeably
Correlation is not causation and why the phrase keeps failing to land
Units and significant figures: small choices that cause big errors
Origin stories of words like quark and black hole
Incommensurability is the most useful and the most abused idea in Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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