Scientific terminology - Topics

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 What vocabulary problems arise when engineers and clinicians co-author a study? Why we still say female scientist when we never say male scientist When a field's name changes: from natural philosophy to physics Why paraphyletic groups like reptiles survive in everyday language Theory vs hypothesis: why scientists and the public use the same word differently How the word scientist was coined in 1834 to describe people who were not yet a profession "When you can measure what you are speaking about" - the full Kelvin sentence Correlation is not causation and why the phrase keeps failing to land Precision vs accuracy: two words that are constantly used interchangeably Latinate Greek and German roots: how scientific names get coined Origin stories of words like quark and black hole Units and significant figures: small choices that cause big errors Incommensurability is the most useful and the most abused idea in Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions Jargon that should never have left the lab bench