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Case Study: The Scientific Method Ain’t What It Used to Be

Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2010

Remember the time when all you had to do was memorize these five steps: ask a question, formulate a hypothesis, perform experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions? And you received full credit for defining THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. Well, those days are gone. This article discusses why the “scientific method ain’t what it used to be.”

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