{"id":2782,"date":"2015-05-11T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:00:58","slug":"a-rough-guide-to-types-of-scientific-evidence-compound-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2015\/05\/11\/a-rough-guide-to-types-of-scientific-evidence-compound-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rough Guide to Types of Scientific Evidence &#8211; Compound Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2015\/01\/ComPound-Interest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2598\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2015\/01\/27\/compound-interest-chemistry-resources\/compound-interest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2015\/01\/ComPound-Interest.png\" data-orig-size=\"201,233\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ComPound Interest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2015\/01\/ComPound-Interest.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2015\/01\/ComPound-Interest.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2598\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2015\/01\/ComPound-Interest.png\" alt=\"ComPound Interest\" width=\"201\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2015\/04\/09\/scientific-evidence\/\">infographic<\/a> looks at science in general, rather than just chemistry. It\u2019s in a similar vein to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2014\/04\/02\/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science\/\"><span style=\"color: #89c145\">Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science<\/span><\/a> posted last year, but this time looking at the hierarchy of different types of scientific evidence. You might think science is science, but some evidence is ranked higher in the scientific community than others, and having an awareness of this can help you sort the science from the pseudoscience when it comes to various internet claims.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic was inspired by a\u00a0 Twitter exchange regarding the artificial sweetener aspartame, during which\u00a0one user who with repeatedly linked\u00a0 to poor quality \u2018evidence\u2019 in order to try and prove their point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This infographic looks at science in general, rather than just chemistry. It\u2019s in a similar vein to the Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science posted last year, but this time looking at the hierarchy of different types of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2015\/05\/11\/a-rough-guide-to-types-of-scientific-evidence-compound-interest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4755,608,4754,705,6246,84],"tags":[7829,762,7830,674324,12322,4835,674329],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forth","category-sciences","category-secong","category-senior-phase","category-stemcentralinmotion","category-third","tag-higher-order-thinking-skills","tag-science","tag-science-inquiry","tag-sciences","tag-scientific-literacy","tag-skills-for-learning-life-work","tag-stemcentralinmotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}