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:*Non-scientific Evidence - [[Evidence]] which can be [[repeatable|repeated]] or [[reproducible|reproduced]].
:**[[Anecdotal Evidence]] - A type of non-scientific evidence that relies on someones personal experience which cannot be [[repeatable|repeated]] or [[reproducible|reproduced]] so no one can double check if it's true.
==Key Stage 4==
===Meaning===
'''Evidence''' is anything which proves an idea is true.
: Singular [[Noun]]: '''Evidence'''
: Plural [[Noun]]: '''Evidence'''
===Meaning===
: When a person makes a claim, others will ask for '''evidence''' that it is true.
: There are many different kinds of [[evidence]]:
:*[[Scientific Evidence]] - any [[observation]]s or [[results]] that are [[repeatable]], [[reproducible]] and [[valid]] to prove or disprove a [[hypothesis]].
:**[[Empirical Evidence]] - A type of [[Scientific Evidence]] that relies on an [[experiment]] which can be [[repeatable|repeated]] to get the same [[results]] and [[reproducible|reproduced]] by others to get the same [[results]].
:**[[Observational Evidence]] - A type of [[Scientific Evidence]] that relies on [[observation]]s which an be [[repeatable|repeated]] to get the same [[results]] and [[reproducible|reproduced]] by others to get the same [[results]].
:**[[Double Blind Trial]] - a [[Clinical Trial|clinical trial]] to test the effect of a [[medicine]] on a human in which the researcher and the participant don't know if they have been given a real [[medicine]] or a [[placebo]].
:*Non-scientific Evidence - [[Evidence]] which can be [[repeatable|repeated]] or [[reproducible|reproduced]].
:**[[Anecdotal Evidence]] - A type of non-scientific evidence that relies on someones personal experience which cannot be [[repeatable|repeated]] or [[reproducible|reproduced]] so no one can double check if it's true.
:**Intuition - Ideas that seem true because they make sense are not counted as '''scientific evidence'''. Just because something seems reasonable, interesting or makes sense does not mean it is true.
:**Tradition - Ideas that have been passed on through generations. Just because many people say something is true, doesn't mean it is true. Such ideas were usually made thousands of years ago at a time when the wheelbarrow would have seemed like a state of the art invention and most people believed disease was caused by demons.