AS scientific simulation software becomes more complicated, the scientific-software implementer’s need for component tests from new model developers becomes more crucial. The community’s ability to follow the basic premise of the Scientific Method requires independently repeatable experiments, and model innovators are in the best position to create these test fixtures. Scientific software devel...

The scientific method is the formal procedure for all acceptable scientific endeavors. With this methodology, there is a continual interaction between theory, in the form of an hypothesis, and objective, experimental analysis. There is a new step in the scientific method that involves the use of computer models and simulation studies. When computer models are incorporated into hypothesis formul...

We present a series of lab exercises that teach non-science majors effective use of the scientific method. We have employed a robotics theme for these exercises, as robotics problems provide a compelling framework for the use of the scientific method in problemsolving. We identify four types of scientific experiments that are useful in this regard, and demonstrate how these types of experiments...

The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in Extreme Programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method, by analogy, can be used to better understand Test Driven Development (and vice versa).

This paper is part of an attempt to explain the distinctive status of modern science within human intellectual life, and in particular the way in which it seems to undermine the legitimacy of other, traditional modes of thought. I argue that the key feature of modern scientific methodology is its testing, not of our judgments, but of the concepts employed in them. Statistical techniques represe...

A ll researchers who attempt to formulate conclusions from a particular path of inquiry use aspects of the scientific method, which can vary from field to field and method to method. The sound application of the scientific method allows researchers to reveal valid empirical findings. Within the social sciences, the general steps include the following: (a) state the problem, (b) formulate the hy...

The automation of scientific method is a subject of increasing intellectual and practical interest, with potentially great benefits to science and society. This paper discusses four key challenges in this task and explains how they have been addressed within a functional genomics project known as the Robot Scientist. In so doing, it describes how abduction and induction have enabled the automat...

Review received on February 03, 2013 and accepted for publication on May 22, 2013 [1] Postgraduate Program in History at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) – Florianópolis (SC), Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] To my knowledge, there is only one place in the entire universe where pure thought is capable of moving matter. This place is the body. In the body, we think about a st...