Briefly describe the scientific method

What will be an ideal response?


The scientific method is a process scientists use to better understand the natural world. It is a combination of many ways of analyzing information, finding relationships, and creating new ideas. Scientists use insight and ingenuity to form, test, revise, and possibly discard hypotheses, in the quest to gain a fundamental understanding of nature.

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