Monday, April 23, 2012

Language, Data, & Evidence:



(Are They Same Thing and Can Teaching Be Accomplished Without in Form of Language)

        Even though we as a society use the words data and evidence as if they were somehow interchangeable, they are very different from one another. Evidence is used to support a claim. However, in science, things can never be proven. They can only be supported. Therefore evidence is used to either valid or support a particular claim. Data, on the other hand, is used as evidence (calculations, numbers, etc.) in order to support various claims.

        Since any form of communication is considered to be a form of language, teaching could be accomplished without its use. Even amongst bees and other insects, language is used to convey important bits of information and teach various members inside their societies, the rules and regulations that each member must abide by. With this in mine, things like dance, art, plays, staring long fully at an object also conveys different  information and is there for language. Thus language is not something that is only unique to humans.  

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