A good example is animal tracks. You may see, for instance, paw tracks in the sand. You did not see the dog that made those tracks, but you know he was there because the tracks are there. In this case you have indirectly observed the dog.
Every time anything is observed or measured by studying external events rather than the object or material itself is an indirect observation. The Large Hadron Collider collectors, for example, are entirely made up of sensors which record data. The data is studied. Not the collisions themselves. The measurements are therefore indirect.
In direct observation you see something, or measure it. Introspection is when you thing about something.
A qualitative observation is used in chemistry, and is simply observing physical changes.
A qualitative observation merely indicates that the subject possesses a certain quality, for example "this water is salty". A quantitative observation takes a measurement of the quality, for example "this salty water has a concentration of 10% salt".
Qualitative observations are those that cannot be measured mathematically or assigned a value. For example, "the sky is blue," is a qualitative observation, it has no mathematical value associated with it. Quantitative observations are those that have a mathematical value. For example, "this desk is 1 meter long" is a quantitative observation. Therefore, noting that something is bubbling is an example of a qualitative observation.
a non-example is an astronomer looking a the ground
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You are not DIRECTLY OBSERVING IT!
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This is an example of indirect observation - you are not seeing the animals directly but are viewing evidence of their existence.
Direct observation is an observation made by using your senses (hear, see, touch, taste, feel). In this case, the observer records directly what that are seeing. Contrary, an indirect observation is an observation made by observing the effects on the present surrounding. In this case, the observer would use the recordings of others (including self observation). In other words, what you can see directly versus what you can infer from another observation. Direct observation, as an example, would be seeing a dog and observing that he is there. Indirect observation, as an example, would be seeing the dog's paw prints in the snow and observing that he had been there.
An example of an indirect weather observation system is a weather radar. Radar uses radio waves to detect precipitation, such as rain, snow, or hail, in the atmosphere. By measuring the intensity and movement of these precipitation particles, meteorologists can infer information about the weather conditions in a specific area.
Direct observation means looking at it with your own two eyes, feeling it with your fingers (or other body parts), directly hearing it with your ears or directly tasting it with your tongue. Indirect observation means not sensing the object of observation directly but by observing the effects it has on its surroundings. An example of indirect observation might be seeing footprints in the snow and using this as evidence that snow leopards are in the area. Direct observation would be seeing the leopard itself.
Direct observation is an instance in which you use one of your senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, to experience an event that happened in your presence. An indirect observation is basically the opposite of a direct observation in that you observe something after it has happened. Example of a direct observation would be seeing a burning fire, feeling its warmth and smelling the fumes. Or perhaps your eyes get watery from the smoke. The indirect observation would be coming upon an empty campsite and seeing the burnt logs and ashes.
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