After high school, I thought I would never have to think about the scientific method ever again, but here I am in college, majoring in communication, and it is still relevant. When I signed up for Speech and Human BEHAVIOR I had no idea what the class would entail, but I feel that I am now getting the hang of it and beginning to understand. I’m starting to see that general semantics is a great system for applying the scientific method to our daily lives, and also for personal growth. I have also begun to realize that people who aren’t very open minded, skeptical, and curious about the world around them cannot continue to grow and develop.

The scientific method starts when we encounter something new and we observe and collect data about it, whether it be a person, thing, experience, or idea. We then form a hypothesis based on our data , or BASICALLY make an opinion or an assumption. Then we start testing. Sometimes things happen while we are “testing” our hypothesis and we have to alter or discard it completely. Obviously, there are going to be times where our predictions are way off or we infer things incorrectly. By having a scientific attitude, we accept that what we think and know is always tentative, and there is always more to LEARN.

The concept of Non-allness has really stuck with me because it is fascinating that we can never experience all of a thing, event, or object and that our words will never be able to capture the whole of something, so there is always more to learn and discover. By taking this into account, I feel like we should always reevaluate what we think initially of something.

Personally, this struck a chord with me because sometimes I feel like I don’t have a scientific attitude. Sometimes I do not take enough time to collect data and observe before making an assumption about something or SOMEONE. Not only is this close minded but isn’t fair to whatever I am judging so quickly. I abstract by focusing only on the details (GOOD or bad) that stick out to me and do not take all of the others into consideration. I want to start approaching things with a scientific attitude, and never cease to seek and inquire information with an open mind. While I know that I will never be able to know all there is about a person or thing, I know that there is always more that I can know and if I have an open mind I will not only discover more, but I will be able to better observe, create, and test my own theories. Sometimes I get stuck in a rut of just accepting things without even questioning them, but from now on I will have a scientific attitude.

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