to be truly a science the following steps should be followed; problem identifcation, observation, collection and classification, analysis, hypothesis, experimentation, report and repeat (turn the 'c'and the 'a' around and you have the acronym 'poacher').
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Meaning of SCIENTIFIC METHOD in English
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