The Scientific Method
Introduction
The Scientific Method is defined as “a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.” The scientific method is used throughout the world which makes it a uniform way to systematically conduct experiments. The guidelines in this method are used so that anyone can repeat the experiment as accurate as possible every time the experiment is done. All measurements in the scientific world are made in metric measurements so there is a uniform system of measurement. The Scientific Method has steps that are taken to get faster, more accurate results. …show more content…
time era. Even though it is not known who first started developing the scientific method, Aristotle was the first philosopher to be known for developing ideas through observations. Rodger Beacon, 1214-1294, described Muslim drawings and writings as a “repeating cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and verification,” which shows that this was a very widely used system even in the 1200’s. In today’s society, Galileo is credited with being the father of the Scientific Method. “Even while Bacon was philosophizing, the true method was being practiced by Galileo, who, with a combination of observation, hypothesis, mathematical deduction and confirmatory experiment founded the science of dynamics,” stated in The Encyclopedia Britannica (1970). Francis Bacon is the next mentionable philosopher for explaining his work in the Novum Organum, published in 1622. In the Novum Organum, Bacon is mentioned for his contribution to the scientific method. Descartes’ Discourse on Method, 1637, is well known and was also a major contribution to the scientific method that we know today. In the beginning this method was originally called the experimental method and the method of science. In the 19th century it became the scientific method. Of course, these scientist mentioned were not the only scientist that contributed to this widely used method. In this specific experiment we will be testing if the length of a person’s upper …show more content…
Upper Limb Length (cm)
In these chart it shows that the subjects fall above the 40% line, but not by much. In Chart A in the last column the average shows to be 41. 193%, which is only 1.193% over the projected percentage stated in the hypothesis.
Discussions and Conclusions The distribution of the four subject’s upper limb length do support the original hypothesis even though it is not exactly 40%, because of errors in the procedure. These errors include consistency in measuring the subjects, gender, ethnicity, and the amount of people. Since the same person did not measure every subject in this study each person may not have been measured the exact same way. Females tend to be smaller framed than males so an error in the procedure could be that there are more females than males or vice versa in the experiment giving inaccurate data. Also, another error in this particular experiment is that only four subjects were measured and their data recorded. With only four subjects the data did not cover society as a whole. In addition to all of the information above, consideration of standard deviation
Introduction
The Scientific Method is defined as “a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.” The scientific method is used throughout the world which makes it a uniform way to systematically conduct experiments. The guidelines in this method are used so that anyone can repeat the experiment as accurate as possible every time the experiment is done. All measurements in the scientific world are made in metric measurements so there is a uniform system of measurement. The Scientific Method has steps that are taken to get faster, more accurate results. …show more content…
time era. Even though it is not known who first started developing the scientific method, Aristotle was the first philosopher to be known for developing ideas through observations. Rodger Beacon, 1214-1294, described Muslim drawings and writings as a “repeating cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and verification,” which shows that this was a very widely used system even in the 1200’s. In today’s society, Galileo is credited with being the father of the Scientific Method. “Even while Bacon was philosophizing, the true method was being practiced by Galileo, who, with a combination of observation, hypothesis, mathematical deduction and confirmatory experiment founded the science of dynamics,” stated in The Encyclopedia Britannica (1970). Francis Bacon is the next mentionable philosopher for explaining his work in the Novum Organum, published in 1622. In the Novum Organum, Bacon is mentioned for his contribution to the scientific method. Descartes’ Discourse on Method, 1637, is well known and was also a major contribution to the scientific method that we know today. In the beginning this method was originally called the experimental method and the method of science. In the 19th century it became the scientific method. Of course, these scientist mentioned were not the only scientist that contributed to this widely used method. In this specific experiment we will be testing if the length of a person’s upper …show more content…
Upper Limb Length (cm)
In these chart it shows that the subjects fall above the 40% line, but not by much. In Chart A in the last column the average shows to be 41. 193%, which is only 1.193% over the projected percentage stated in the hypothesis.
Discussions and Conclusions The distribution of the four subject’s upper limb length do support the original hypothesis even though it is not exactly 40%, because of errors in the procedure. These errors include consistency in measuring the subjects, gender, ethnicity, and the amount of people. Since the same person did not measure every subject in this study each person may not have been measured the exact same way. Females tend to be smaller framed than males so an error in the procedure could be that there are more females than males or vice versa in the experiment giving inaccurate data. Also, another error in this particular experiment is that only four subjects were measured and their data recorded. With only four subjects the data did not cover society as a whole. In addition to all of the information above, consideration of standard deviation