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... assumes and emphasizes the uniformity within a group and exaggerates the differences between them. Scientists are stereotyped as being objective, disciplined and rational while artist are to bee subjective, impulsive and imaginative. These stereotypes are ultimate opposites in their way of understanding. How accurate are the stereotypes? To what extent are the stereotypes distorted? Webster dictionary defines science as "a body of truths that are discovered by the correct application of scientific methods." The scientific method is a "principle and empirical process of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and a conclusion that validates or modifies the hypothesis1." The definition of science stated above has problems that need to be addressed as not all science are derived from generalized knowledge and only ...