Do the steps of the scientific method need to be followed in order every time an experiment is carried?
1 Answer
Sep 5, 2017
No
Explanation:
The scientific method is about testing hypotheses by experiment, but that's not the only purpose of experimentation.
For example, consider questions of the form "What happens when ... ?". You might well perform an experiment to help answer such a question without having any explicit hypothesis, and such experiments can be useful or dangerous or both.
