1. SCIENTIFIC HABITS OF MIND

2. CURIOUS Good scientists are endlessly curious Jane Goodall
Spent years studying a troop of chimpanzees in Africa

3. SKEPTICAL Don’t believe everything you are told.
19th century doctors thought that men and women breathed differently
Men used diaphragm, women used ribs
Women’s clothes forced them to breathe differently
Other examples?

4. OPEN TO NEW IDEAS Keep an open mind about the way the world works
Goes hand in hand with skepticism

5. INTELLECTUALLY HONEST
Consider that your hypothesis may be wrong.
Rely on the data

6. IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE
Allow yourself to come up with new ideas
See patterns where others do not
Imagine things that others have not
Expand the boundaries of what we know
EXAMPLE: John Snow
Cholera epidemic in London in 1854, public water, made a map to find source