The Harwood Model is useful to show the many steps that you can take at any point during and investigation or an experiment. There's not really any beginning or end, just more questions. In comparison, the Baloney Detection Kit urges us to be totally skeptical of any claim, scientific or otherwise, and provides some steps for evaluating claims.
The Harwood model does not question any claims validity, it provides direction for further investigation. The Baloney Detection Kit was designed to disprove 'bogus' claims. I think that both are useful, though I feel more affinity for the intuitive nature of the Harwood model, I think that applying a little more skepticism would be highly useful for me.
In this class, so far, we have focused on the Harwood model. Although, I do see that we applied the Baloney Detection Kit when we traded notebooks, teasing out the problems, and then trading again and looking at each other's conclusions.
http://natscinm.blogspot.com/2011/01/baloney-detection-kit.html
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