Habits of Mindwith apologies to Arthur Costa1Tuesday, 11 January, 2011Costa’sHabits of Mindwww.chsvt.org/wdp/Habits_of_Mind_Curriculum_VT_WDP.pdfhttp://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108008/chapters/Describing-the-Habits-of-Mind.aspx2Tuesday, 11 January, 2011Science for All Americans (AAAS)•Chapter 12 is about scientific habits of mindhttp://www.project2061.org/publications/sfaa/online/sfaatoc.htm3Tuesday, 11 January, 2011SMS 691•Basic level of expectation for a grad student in marine sciences (This is a dialogue, not a monologue.)•Awareness of common problems and misconceptions•Awareness of resources for continued growth4Tuesday, 11 January, 2011Care, precision and accuracy•Practice SI units; get to know the NIST website.•Use the NIST checklist for reviewing manuscripts http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html for all your work.•Violations result in ambiguity and are clear evidence of sloppiness.5Tuesday, 11 January, 2011Common violations•Writing sec for s or hr for h•Writing 3 minutes or three min in place of three minutes or 3 min•Failing to space between numbers and their units or between separate units (speed of sound in water is about 1500ms-1 instead of 1500 m s-1 or 1500 m⋅s-1)•Writing units or numbers in italics6Tuesday, 11 January, 2011Understand the precision of your measurements.In general,precision of the meanand the error estimateshould match:6.7 ± 3.1not6 ± 3.16.7 ± 3orSpecify what error estimate youare using (e.g., 95% CL or SEM).7Tuesday, 11 January,