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Assignment Task

Question 1: Reproducible Research

Please write an essay to address the following three questions:

1) What is reproducible research?

2) Why is it important?

3) How Jupyter notebooks can be used to assist in this area

Question 2: The Science of Science Communication

In Chapter 3 of the book “The Truthful Art”, the author Alberto Cairo states that for religiously or politically contentious issues better information may not lead to better understanding but to more polarization. Write an essay discussing this topic by addressing the following two questions.

1) Why does this happen?

2) How does dissonance reduction and confirmation bias contribute to this?