How Do We Make Observations
Of Course, We Can Make Observations Directly by Seeing, Feeling, Hearing, and Smelling, but We Can Also Extend and Refine Our Basic Senses with Tools...
How Do We Make Observations?
Of course, we can make observations directly by seeing, feeling, hearing, and smelling, but we can also extend and refine our basic senses with tools: thermometers, microscopes, telescopes, radar, radiation sensors, X-ray crystallography, mass spectroscopy, etc. And these tools do a better job of observing than we can!
How do scientists make observations?
The scientific method
- Make an observation.
- Ask a question.
- Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation.
- Make a prediction based on the hypothesis.
- Test the prediction.
- Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.
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