Scientific Method Steps

The scientific method is used by every scientist around the world. There are five steps composed of the method, using the method you can go in order. After you discover a problem, you need to clearly state what the problem is. The first step of the scientific method is to understand the problem you have came up with and think of solutions to the problem. The next step to the method is to gather information about the problem so that you can develop an experiment or an hypothesis. In the article by authors David W. Fraser and Joseph E. McDade, they lay out these four steps. The first step to the method as listed above is to understand the problem and state it clearly. The problem proposed in the article “Legionellosis,” was that there was an …show more content…
Out of four thousand four hundred people at the convention, one hundred and forty-nine of the people developed an illness that caused fever, coughing, and pneumonia. This illness spread quickly and became an epidemic which left the nation perplexed. Shortly after, the media gave this disease a name, Hence the name of Legionellosis. Before getting any further with the problem solving, you need to gather information surrounding the problem. This step is one of the most important because you need to have background knowledge of what you are studying. Through gathering information you need to do two things, one you need to make observations and two you need to research your topic. The Center of Disease needs to ask the question, what are the symptoms of legionellosis. While finding research and discussing with the ill, they observed that most of the people infected with the illness showed the same symptoms. For example, fever, coughing and pneumonia. As 212 people with the illness were interviewed it was noted that the 34 people that showed the symptom pneumonia died. Later they discovered that they need to research where the diseases originated from. The Center of