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What is the main purpose of the scientific method?
What is the main purpose of the scientific method?
- To make scientists work harder
- To provide a framework for proving others wrong
- To help scientists study and learn things (correct)
- To eliminate the need for experiments
What is the first step in the scientific method?
What is the first step in the scientific method?
- Analyze data
- Change variables
- Come up with a question (correct)
- Run experiments
Why is it important to only change one variable at a time in experiments?
Why is it important to only change one variable at a time in experiments?
- It speeds up the experimentation process
- It helps to confuse other scientists
- It ensures accurate results by attributing changes to specific variables (correct)
- It makes the experiments more fun
If a scientist's results do not match their hypothesis, what should they do?
If a scientist's results do not match their hypothesis, what should they do?