The scientific method

​The Scientific Method

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By Daniel Holladay

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Multiple Choice

What is the first step of the scientific method

• Making an observation and asking a question

• background research

• interpret data

• hypothesis

Multiple Choice

What's the second step in the scientific method?

• Analysis

• Experiment

• Background Research

• Hypothesis

The first step of the scientific method is making an observation and ask a question based off that observation

The entire reason scientific inquiry ever happens is by first observing a phenomenon in nature and questioning why it exists in this particular manner

--Observations can be made in any environment. For anything that can be seen but can't automatically be explained, we then need...

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---Questioning the meaning of something is the very framework of how science​ is done

The second step of the process is to do background research on the question at hand​

Background research is essential to gain a greater understanding of the question and other studies that have been done on this question or a similar one.

​Experiment

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Now it's time to formulate and conduct an experiment​

Formulating and conducting an experiment is the very basis of science. It allows the scientist(s) ​to see what is going on with the phenomenon they were looking at

The fifth step is to now collect the data that the experiment has given ​

To do this, you must record the results of the experiment by writing them down​

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The sixth step is to analyze the data that you recorded from the experiment ​

​In order to do this one must consider causation and correlation when creating graphs and different systems of measurement to define what truly happened in the experiment

The last step is to compare the results with your original hypothesis, communicate them with other scientists, and repeat the experiment

​If the hypothesis is wrong, reformulate it and go through the process again, if it's right, repeat it

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Repeating the experiment as many times as the scientist(s) can will diminish the margin of error, making the result as close as possible to the actual answer to the original question posed.

​The next step is to construct a hypothesis

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​This is important because it's the prediction made by the scientist(s) that's going to conduct the study that will either be proved right or wrong by the...