How would you outline the steps that are required in a scientific research process and discuss what happens at each step.
2006-10-23 09:13:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
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1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
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2006-10-23 09:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-23 09:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by nrnetman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋