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A scientist wants to use a model to help present the results of his detailed scientific investigation.
Why would a model be useful?
because the model makes the concepts easier to understand
because the model is easy to put together and to use
because the model prevents other scientists from asking questions
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Correct choice: because the model makes the concepts easier to understand.
Brief explanation:
- A model is useful primarily because it simplifies and clarifies complex systems, highlighting key relationships, enabling visualization, and helping communicate results and implications to others.
- “Because the model is easy to put together and to use” is not a reliable reason — some useful models are simple, but many are complex; usefulness depends on explanatory and predictive power, not ease of construction.
- “Because the model prevents other scientists from asking questions” is false — good models invite scrutiny, testing, and questioning; peer review and critique improve models and scientific understanding.
Brief explanation:
- A model is useful primarily because it simplifies and clarifies complex systems, highlighting key relationships, enabling visualization, and helping communicate results and implications to others.
- “Because the model is easy to put together and to use” is not a reliable reason — some useful models are simple, but many are complex; usefulness depends on explanatory and predictive power, not ease of construction.
- “Because the model prevents other scientists from asking questions” is false — good models invite scrutiny, testing, and questioning; peer review and critique improve models and scientific understanding.
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