Glossary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intellectual humility | Recognizing the limits of one's knowledge and being willing to change one's mind when presented with good evidence. Science Literacy |
| Intelligent Design | The belief that at least some aspects of nature show evidence of intelligent, often supernatural, design. Evolution |
| Intentionality bias | The tendency to see events as caused deliberately rather than by accident or chance. Science Literacy |
| Interdisciplinary | Combining methods and knowledge from more than one scientific field. Science General |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | The United Nations body that assesses the science of climate change. Its reports, written by thousands of scientists, summarize the state of knowledge for policymakers. Climate Change |
| International System of Units | The modern metric system used worldwide in science, built on seven base units including the meter, kilogram, second, and kelvin. Commonly called SI. Science General |
| Interpolation | Estimating values between known data points. Science General |
| Interpretability | Interpretability is the degree to which humans can understand why an AI system produced a given output. Artificial Intelligence |
| Intersubjectivity | Shared psychological perceptions between people used to construct social reality, which antiscience groups often substitute for objective, empirical data. Science Misinformation |
| Intramuscular injection | An injection into a muscle, usually in the upper arm or thigh. Most vaccines are given this way. Vaccines |