The Scientific Method


"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), United States Senator from New York

Objectivism




Relativism




The Scientific Method









Purpose of the Scientific Method: to construct an accurate, reliable, self-consistent, non-arbitrary representation of the world.

The procedures are standardized to minimize any prejudice the experimenter might have when testing the hypothesis.





The Scientific Method is carried out collectively by all researchers. Individual experiments or experimenters can be wrong, but Science is self-correcting. The Scientific Method is the ideal toward which scientists work.

Reference http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html



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