High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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Adapted from a 2021 article on scientific reasoning.
Skepticism is a curious virtue: too little, and one is credulous; too much, and one is paralyzed. The working scientist must therefore cultivate a calibrated doubt — one that scales with the stakes of the claim and the strength of the evidence. A physicist who demanded ironclad proof before accepting that the sun will rise tomorrow would be, in any practical sense, dysfunctional. But the same physicist, confronted with a purported measurement that contradicts a century of thermodynamics, ought to hesitate. What distinguishes the productive skeptic from the mere contrarian is not the willingness to doubt but the discipline to doubt proportionately.
As used in the passage, calibrated most nearly means
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