scientific method

scientific method

1. It is a research method used mainly in the production of knowledge in the sciences.

   • It would be the procedure by which we can achieve an objective knowledge of reality, trying to answer questions about the order of nature
   • It is a method linked to science and scientific knowledge.

2. The scientific method is based on two pillars

   • The reproducibility
     • The capacity to repeat a certain experiment, in any place and by any person and to
   • The refutability
     • All scientific proposition must be capable of being falsified or refuted (falsificationism)

3. Characteristics of the scientific method

   • It is a theoretical method
   • It is systematic
   • It is both inductive and deductive
   • It has an empirical basis

4. Techniques of the scientific method

   • Inductive
   • Deductive
   • Hypothetical-Deductive
   • Analytical
   • Synthetic
   • Comparative history
   • Quantitative
   • Qualitative

5. Stages of the scientific method

   • Definición y planteamiento del problema
   • Hypothesis formulation
   • Data collection and analysis
   • Confronting the data with the hypothesis
   • Conclusions and generalization of the results