Designing a less perfect solution We used FlashyScience to teach students how to use micrometer screws and for the main investigation we used the University of Colorado Boulder’s PhET simulations and ...

In an experiment, evaluate the validity of the steps leading up to the conclusion for it to be valid. Random and systematic errors can contribute to the uncertainty of a measurement.

This article discusses simple processes for addressing the random and systematic errors caused by the dead time in a gammaray spectrometer.

Many concepts in sociology are difficult or impossible to objectively measure. This limitation forces a reliance on subjective measures that typically contain both systematic and random measurement ...