Words and Science Without language, things between humans would get pretty confusing pretty fast. And even though the ways we communicate can be super flexible, it’s best to make sure we actually know what the words we’re using really mean. This becomes all the more important when we try to understand science, where words often take on highly specialised meanings. And that’s why a team of researchers just published a master list of terms they would like everybody to stop getting wrong. “In psychology, many terms are confused not only by new students but also by advanced students, psychology instructors, and science journalists,” says one of the researchers, Scott Lilienfeld from Emory University. This new work is actually a sequel to a paper Lilienfeld and colleagues published last year, in which they collected a list of the most “inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases in ...
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