Experimental Method (Abdelrahman Ossama)

Strengths

help understand Nature's cause-effect relationship

Precise+accurate

highly controlled procedure

Repeatable

Practicle + Ethical

Weaknesses

real world complexity versus artificial lab conditions

used only when ethical/ practicle

Description

Manipulate independent variable

contol conditions

test changes: dependent variable

Examples

Biology

How do birds remember where they stash their seeds?

Geology

Could the basic building blocks of living organisms arise from the conditions of the early Earth environment?

Psychology

Can information given to eyewitnesses after an event has taken place actually become part of their memory of that event?

Sociology

Do women tend to perceive other women as less or more competent than men at writing professional articles?