Measuring the scientific attitude.

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The scientific attitude as analyzed and described includes the following habits of thinking: habit of accuracy in all operations, including accuracy in calculation, observation and report; habit of intellectual honesty; habit of open-mindedness; habit of suspended judgment; habit of looking for true cause-and-effect relationships; and habit of criticalness, including that of self-criticism. An example of the types of items devised to measure the functioning of each of the six habits is one of several used for accuracy: a simple diagram of the orbits of the earth and Mars around the sun was presented with a dozen questions which could be answered by reference to the diagram. Results showed that older children make higher scores, and the greater the interval between the school grades being compared the more reliable the differences between their respective mean scores. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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