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?