Checklist Approach to Defining Science | Recipes for Science | Dr. Angela Potochnik

There are some things that clearly count as science-biology, chemistry, and astrophysics, to name a few-and there are some things that clearly don’t count as science-like astrology, phrenology, and crystal healing. But what is the difference? What makes something count as a science? It turns out that this is a challenging question to answer. This video develops a checklist approach to defining science, where we can compare a project against a list of important features of science to determine whether and to what extent it counts as scientific.
This video is aligned with Chapter 1 of the book Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning, by Angela Potochnik, Matteo Colombo, and Cory Wright.