Scientific Method

Every child understands the scientific method - do you?:

1 - Make an observation

2- Form a hypothesis

3 - Perform an experiment (physical or digital)

4 - Analyze the Data*

5- Report Findings

6 - Encourage other to reproduce results

7 - A large bolus of related work is used to build a theory

8 - Over time theories evolve as new work ads to evidence

* Normally, analysis proceeds to set aside the null hypothesis at some level of confidence - in this sense, science is not intended to PROVE. That said, certainly, Newton's Laws and Evolutionary theories constitute Proof by any commence sense standard. But science demands that the search for more evidence continues ad infinitum, so theories can furth evolve.