This book provides a clear, intuitive, accurate model of scientific method, articulating the fundamental tenets in an accessible, informative style. Defines and explains basic scientific principles including hypotheses, theories, testing, evidence and more.

A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific. It is written in a direct, clear style that is accessible and informative for scientists and science students. It is intended to help science teachers explain how science works, highlighting strengths without ignoring limitations, and to help scientists articulate the process and standards of their work. The book demonstrates that there are several important requirements for being scientific, and the most fundamental of these is maintaining an extensive, interconnected, coherent network of ideas. Some components in the network are empirical, others are theoretical, and they support each other. Clarifying the structure of this web of knowledge explains the role of the commonly cited aspects of scientific method, things like hypotheses, theories, testing, evidence, and the like. A Summary of Scientific Method provides a clear, intuitive, and accurate model of scientific method.

A balance of strengths and limitations of science Numerous examples Close link between science and common sense Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Preface - Introduction - 1. Science and common sense - 2. Empirical foundations - 3. Empirical testing - 4. The network of knowledge - 5. Scientific change - 6. Scientific understanding - Summary - Suggested Reading.