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Dan Hikuroa .
Responding to the recent controversy over mātauranga Māori and the letter he co-authored titled In defence of science , Emeritus Professor Michael Corballis said: We don t know any Māori who knows what mātauranga is .
Mātauranga spans Māori knowledge, culture, values and worldview. When someone asks, is mātauranga science? , there are a range of things they could really be asking about, Emily Parke and Dan Hikuroa write.
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This immediately made us wonder: What would happen if we asked a group of scientists what science is?
Common responses to the question what is science? focus on causal explanations, controlled experiments, hypothesis testing or falsification (those are popular options, not an exhaustive list).