{"id":37,"date":"2015-09-28T22:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T22:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/nutritionxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=37"},"modified":"2015-12-07T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:47:11","slug":"the-scientific-method-figure-missing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/chapter\/the-scientific-method-figure-missing\/","title":{"raw":"The Scientific Method","rendered":"The Scientific Method"},"content":{"raw":"The basis of what we know about nutrition is derived from research. The scientific method underlies how research is conducted. The following figure shows the steps in the scientific method.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_330\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2015\/11\/04064731\/The_Scientific_Method_Blue.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-330\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2015\/11\/04064731\/The_Scientific_Method_Blue-300x243.png\" alt=\"The Scientific Method\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a> The steps of the scientific method.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2>Steps in the Scientific Method<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>The first step is to come up with a scientific or research question that will be interesting to investigate.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Research is done to examine other experiments that might impact the question.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Based on the research question, a hypothesis or an educated guess is formulated.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>The next step is to design and conduct the experiment. A good design should take into account what has been done previously. Thus, a thorough review of methods and results published previously should be undertaken. This will help prevent making the same mistakes and save a lot of time performing the research.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Perform the experiment\/research and collect results and draw conclusions.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>If the hypothesis is not supported, then a new hypothesis\/research question should be created and an experiment conducted accordingly.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nUltimately researchers hope to publish their research in peer-reviewed journals.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>The basis of what we know about nutrition is derived from research. The scientific method underlies how research is conducted. The following figure shows the steps in the scientific method.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_330\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2015\/11\/04064731\/The_Scientific_Method_Blue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2015\/11\/04064731\/The_Scientific_Method_Blue-300x243.png\" alt=\"The Scientific Method\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The steps of the scientific method.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Steps in the Scientific Method<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first step is to come up with a scientific or research question that will be interesting to investigate.<\/li>\n<li>Research is done to examine other experiments that might impact the question.<\/li>\n<li>Based on the research question, a hypothesis or an educated guess is formulated.<\/li>\n<li>The next step is to design and conduct the experiment. A good design should take into account what has been done previously. Thus, a thorough review of methods and results published previously should be undertaken. This will help prevent making the same mistakes and save a lot of time performing the research.<\/li>\n<li>Perform the experiment\/research and collect results and draw conclusions.<\/li>\n<li>If the hypothesis is not supported, then a new hypothesis\/research question should be created and an experiment conducted accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately researchers hope to publish their research in peer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-37\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Specific attribution<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Scientific Method. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Michael Fullerton. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikimedia . <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Scientific_method#\/media\/File:The_Scientific_Method_Blue.png\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Scientific_method#\/media\/File:The_Scientific_Method_Blue.png<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":706,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc-attribution\",\"description\":\"The Scientific Method\",\"author\":\"Michael Fullerton\",\"organization\":\"Wikimedia \",\"url\":\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Scientific_method#\/media\/File:The_Scientific_Method_Blue.png\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-37","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":18,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/revisions\/527"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/18"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/pierce-nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}