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Which of the following is a scientific question?
What are you having for lunch?
What stores sell my favorite flavor of gum?
How do mosquitoes affect the transmission of disease?
Who is the director of the National Science Foundation?
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"How do mosquitoes affect the transmission of disease?" is the scientific question.
Why: scientific questions ask about natural causes/relationships and can be investigated by observation or experiment (testable and falsifiable). The other items are factual or personal/informational queries:
- "What are you having for lunch?" is a personal preference/information question.
- "What stores sell my favorite flavor of gum?" is a factual/consumer question.
- "Who is the director of the National Science Foundation?" is a factual/biographical question.
You could make the others scientific by reframing them (e.g., "Does store layout affect sales of specific gum flavors?" or "How do meal choices vary by time of day and affect blood glucose?").
Why: scientific questions ask about natural causes/relationships and can be investigated by observation or experiment (testable and falsifiable). The other items are factual or personal/informational queries:
- "What are you having for lunch?" is a personal preference/information question.
- "What stores sell my favorite flavor of gum?" is a factual/consumer question.
- "Who is the director of the National Science Foundation?" is a factual/biographical question.
You could make the others scientific by reframing them (e.g., "Does store layout affect sales of specific gum flavors?" or "How do meal choices vary by time of day and affect blood glucose?").
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