Thinking and Acting Scientifically

We often act as scientists as we make decisions that guarantee excellence.

• In what ways do you act as a scientist throughout a work day?

• What strategies do you use to separate misinformation from genuine knowledge and scientific research from poorly supported claims?
• Share a decision you made using good data. What went well? What were the results?
• What experience do you have as a researcher or action researcher, and how would you describe yourself as a reader and consumer of research?

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At work, different tasks may require different approaches. Before undertaking the task, gathering information on how the approach works, its benefits, and its cons are critical in evaluating its effectiveness. The second way is setting hypotheses about the outcome. This factor checks actions on a task against what is considered as the desired output. This will help in concentrating production methodologies to achieving a low variance output.

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