The Scientific Method

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Scientific method used to solve problems and answer questions in an organised way. It's process is identifying a problem and testing suggested explanations by carrying out experiment.

Steps in the Scientific Method:

-Observation: noticing something that requires a solution or an answer.

-Hypothesis: an educated guess based off observations.

-Experiment: designed to test a hypothesis.

-Data/Results: information and observation gathered from the experiment.

-Conclusion: summary of the results of the experiment, which helps to accept or alter the hypothesis accordingly.

-Existing knowledge: comparing our gotten conclusion to existing information in Scientific Journals or the internet.

-Reporting and Publishing Results: written down results should always be reported, and published in scientific journals, magazines or the internet. This is important as it adds to growth of scientific understanding, and allows other scientists to test upon your hypothesis, and if same results are obtained, to further validate your conclusion which could form a theory upon repetition and same results.

Principle/Law: arises from a theory when it is seen to be true under all conditions over a long period of time.

Experiments are based on:

-Planning and design

-Safe procedures

-Control

-Fair procedure

-Double blind testing