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Teaching the scientific method (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 212 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

-- Adam Savage

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mythbusters embodied the scientific method, but I do wish they'd stopped to actually properly explain it at some point. "Writing it down" is definitely part of the process, but it's not the whole process. The whole process is what they actually did in most of their episodes:

Make a prediction
Design an experiment to test that prediction
Run the experiment and observe the results
Come up with a conclusion

Sometimes they played fast and loose with some of these steps to make entertaining TV. But, fundamentally, they were doing science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I mean presumably they wrote it down when they wrote the script

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Anything can be observable, but "iterative processes" makes it sound fancy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

[Stares shamefully at sparsely populated Obsidian vault, thinking about all bullshit I tinker with just long enough to set it up and forget how the next time I go back to it]