Scientific Method

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What you think will be the outcome of your experiment or data collection.

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To force a conclusion based on many data.

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Just another word for a hypothesis.

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Another word for observation.

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From the predictions.

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By making an interesting observation.

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By testing the data.

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Assume that you know everything.

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Making an observation

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Forming a hypothesi

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Developing a test

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Conclusion

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Communication of results

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Observation

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Hypothesis formation

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Conclusion

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You look at your hypotheses and choose which one you like best.

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You compare the data from your experimental results to the prediction they tested.

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You guess what the results should be.

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You keep making different tests until they show what you want to see.

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A question follows from an interesting observation and the hypothesis is an educated guess or answer to that questiony

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A question is what you end up with after the test and the hypothesis is a summary of the conclusions.

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A question is the summary of data collected and the hypothesis is the interpretation of the data

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A question is an assumption and the hypothesis is the answer to the assumption.

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A prediction is what the doctors gives you in her clinic, and a test is what the weatherman gives you each evening.

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A prediction is a possible answer to the question, and a test is what you take at the end of the semester in class.

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A prediction is what a fortune teller gets paid for, and a test is what you give to your friends to make sure they are still your friends.

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A prediction is usually a specific statement “if . . .then”, and the test is the actual experiment used to obtain data.

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Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth.

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Your best “educated guess” of what the answer to your question will be.

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An experiment.

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An untestable statement.

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Observations trick you into trying only one hypothesis.

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A prediction always needs more than a single hypothesis.

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If you reject your sole hypothesis you have nothing left.

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Hypotheses always come in pairs.

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Observation

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