Chodorowicz, Heidi, and Heidi Chodorowicz. “Bringing It Back to Our Roots with the Scientific Method.” UX Collective, UX Collective, 19 Mar. 2018, uxdesign.cc/bringing-it-back-to-the-routes-of-the-scientific-method-eedfc1eae1b5.
Grace Moore
Scientific Method - a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
Steps
- Ask a question
- Do background research
- Construct a hypothesis
- Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment
- Analyze the data and results then draw a conclusion
Something surprising about this is that we do this almost every day. When you have a question and you are trying to solve it you do these steps in your head to try and to come to a conclusion. I learned this because when learning what this was and applying it in real-world situations it just brings to light that we do this with most questions that we have. When going into this I already knew some of the steps but I did not realize how often this can be used every day.
When we use the scientific method in our everyday life do we sometimes skip a step or do we follow the exact process without knowing it?
ReplyDeleteWhen we do this in our heads or in our everyday life we most defiantly skip steps or we even can do it in different orders! You may already have a conclusion and you have to work backwards from that to find how you got that conclusion.
DeleteIs the scientific method used/needed in every experiment and what impact does it have on our data?
ReplyDeleteIt is used in most all experiments even if we don't right it out this is a process we do in our heads. But the impact it will have is beneficially because we walk through every step of getting to our conclusion rather then jumping to conclusions.
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