standardized set of techniques for building scientific knowledge.
Scientific Method
what are the 4 key characteristics that scientific method must satisfy or meet?
Logical
Confirmable
Repeatable
Scrutinizable
scientific inferences must be based on logical principles of reasoning.
Logical
inferences derived must match the observed audience.
Confirmable
other scientists should be able to independently replicate or repeat a scientific study and obtain similar, if not identical, results.
Repeatable
procedures used and inferences derived must withstand peer review by other researchers.
Scrutinizable