THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

1. COGITATION

   • Thinking deeply,relying solely on whatever facts or insights you can discover within your own mind.

2. OBSERVATION

   • The careful watching and recording of events in nature for the purose of enlarging what you already know.

3. EXPERIMENTATION

   • Process of performing a scientific procedure, especially in a laboratory, to determine something.

4. Steps

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     • Based on Observationwe need to clearly formulate a worthwhile question.
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     • Search the scientific literature o see whether the same question has been investigated by others.
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     • Consider all the hard facts that are at disposal.
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     • Design an experiment to test the hypothesis
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     • From the facts that have een formulated formulate a possible answer to the questions.
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     • The observation are numerical data, in most research.
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     • Carefully analyzes his procedures and the result to ensure the experiment was a fair test to hypothesis
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     • If the experiment and the data appear valid, report it to other scientists.