Characteristics of Scientific method

by, Er. Sujit Chavan

1. CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD

2. SCIENTIFIC METHOD Principles and procedures for the systematic activity of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.

3. CHARACTERISTICS

4. 1.SYSTEMATICS The systematic plan that must guide a scientific investigation must consider all the aspects and moments of this research.

5. 2. CONTROLLED Scientific research must avoid chance. The process must be supported by control mechanisms that allow it to obtain truthful results. All actions and observations are controlled.

6. 3. EMPERICAL It is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect  observation or   experience. Is about Experiment with evidence.

7. 4. RATIONAL Science in general is characterized by being rational and logical. In a scientific investigation must emphasize the rationality on the subjectivity.

8. 5. REPRODUCIBLE The findings obtained through scientific research should be able to be reproduced under the same conditions established in the study.

9. 6. OBJECTIVE The results of scientific research must be universal.

10. 7. PROVISIONAL Science is constantly expanding. Scientific research is considered provisional because it must be open to further studies.

11. 8. ORIGINAL There is no sense in focusing scientific research on proven facts. If it is based on an existing research, the researcher should focus on a different area of ​​the problem.

12. 9. ORDERED Planning must have a specific order, which responds to the interests of the study . Orderly structure allows developing a veracious, empirical and verifiable study.