Scientific Method

• Basis of Scientific Method

– Reliance on evidence

• not decided by imagination

• Collects Relevant data

– Use of concepts

– Commitment to objectivity

• judgment upon facts

• unbiased by personal impressions

• conclusions don't vary from person to person

– Ethical neutrality

– Generalizations:

• generalizing on sufficient/complete

• comparisons and control groups for accuracy of generalizations

– Verifiability

• conclusions should be verifiable

• verification through replication of the whole research

– Logical reasoning process

Requisites of a Good Scientific Method

• Careful analysis of the problem

• unambiguous definition of

– terms

– concepts

– statistical measures

• Collection of relevant data

• Classification of data;

• accurate statistical procedure in summarizing the data

• logical reasoning in drawing generalizations;