What is the Scientific Method? Part 2

I'm trying to stir this up some more. C'mon. If you're so sure that the scientific method is such a great thing, surely you can come up with some things to say about it, can't you?

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[freetaught]

Darwin-shamster?:D Joe, your killing me!

[DarwinsHamster]

The perfect crime! No forensic evidence!

[dudev]

I really like your thought provocking topics. You're a great speaker too. My name arrived by lack of imagination. And I was too lazy to change it. Now I'm stuck with it. Dude-ev will have to suffice.

[DarwinsHamster]

Your name may lack imagination, but your videos do not! Thanks for your kind words.

[pinkzebrasrafterme]

@neoverse - for those who know how to look at scientific data and research and interpret it themselves, there are no "hard core" believers in either side. The data is so inconclusive that it is only a theory and those people who are hard core believers in either side of the argument tend to dismiss evidence against their theory because they are not scientific thinkers, they are just believers.

[pinkzebrasrafterme]

@dudev - I am pscyhology major and I totally agree with you. In the case of most theories or hypothesis the research done is not 100% conclusive unless you consider some basic concepts of environmental science and biology. In psychology especially, nothing is proven. It only takes a 60% repeatability factor to call it a good theory and be used on an everday basis. The scientific method works to weed out theories that are obviously wrong, but not to prove a theory to 100% in most cases.

[neoverse]

I agree with sleach060689's list

What gets me is if you ask a hard core "evolutionist or big banger" for a definition 99% of the time the word experiment or observation won't even come up. So I guess to them everything it is open to interpretation except when it comes to interpreting the data that they use to support their theories.

[tebislu]

im looking for an explanation of what it is and you came with an essay. concence your video to what we want to know thanks.

[sleach060689]

Step one: Make an observation.

Step two: Formulate a hypothesis based on your observation.

Step Three: Conduct an experiment based on your hypothesis.

Step four: draw a conclusion from your experiment.

Step five: test again and again to see if your hypothesis holds up.

Where you go from there is your business

[bmed19]

scientific method is a systematic way of aquiring knowledge. It involves making hypothesis about events which occur in nature and falsifying them through experimentation and observation