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VOCABULARY Exercise 8. Read the three texts, do the tasks, and answer the questions



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VOCABULARY
Exercise 8. Read the three texts, do the tasks, and answer the questions.
Data, Evidence and Facts
Data
Data?is?a?set?of?values?of?qualitative?or?quantitative?variables.?Data?is?mea-
suredcollected and reported, and analyzed,?whereupon?it?can?be?visualized?
using graphs or images. Data as a general concept refers to the fact that some 
existing information or knowledge is represented in?some?form?suitable?for?bet-
ter usage or processing.
Raw data,?i.e.?unprocessed?data,?is?a?collection?of?numbers,?characters.?Field 
data is raw data that is collected in an uncontrolled in situ environment. Exper-
imental data is data that is generated within the context of a scientific investi-
gation?by?observation?and?recording.
The?word?‘data’?used?to?be?considered?the?plural?of?‘datum’,?and?still?is?by?
some English speakers. Nowadays, though, ‘data’ is most commonly used in the 
singular, as a mass noun (like ‘information’, ‘sand’ or ‘rain’).
A. Translate from English into Russian the words and word combinations in bold.
B. Answer the questions:
1) What is data? What type of data do you plan to collect and analyse for 
your research?
2)? What?is?the?difference?between?raw?and?field?data?
3) Will you use experimental data in your research?
Evidence
Evidence,?broadly?construed,?is?anything?presented?in?support?of?an?asser-
tion.?This?support?may?be?strong?or?weak.?The?strongest?type?of?evidence?is?that?
which provides direct proof of the truth of an assertion. At the other extreme is 
evidence?that?is?merely?consistent?with?an?assertion?but?does?not?rule?out?other,?
contradictory assertions, as in circumstantial evidence.




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