Tagged: Educational Resources

The Scientific Method On TV - Skepticon

Darcy Cowan • Apr 29, 2013 •

• Educational Resources,
• Sciblogs,
• Science in Society,
• scientific method,
• Television

Last week Michael Edmonds asked “Which TV Show Best Demonstrates the Scientific Method?” Various shows where suggested such as CSI and NCIS. Bones made an appearance in the comments as one show that exhibits a fair amount of pseudoscience along with it’s “real” science. House was praised for it’s attention to hypothesis generation and testing. [&hellip … Read More

Delayed Gratification = Success? - Skepticon

Darcy Cowan • Aug 10, 2010 •

• Child,
• Educational Resources,
• experiment,
• Health,
• Psychological,
• Psychology,
• Sciblogs,
• Social Sciences,
• Stanford University,
• Walter Mischel

Today we are going to step into the time machine and go back 21 years to 1989. It was in this year that the study to become known as the “Marshmallow experiment” was published. Performed by Walter Mischel at Stanford University this experiment showed an amazing thing, that testing a child’s self-control at 4yrs could [...] … Read More