Hypothesis Testing Lab 1 Termites and the Scientific Method

Hypothesis Testing Lab 1 Termites and the Scientific Method Background The Scientific Method The scientific method is the process that scientists use to construct an accurate representation of the world. It attempts to minimize the influence o bias or prejudice in the experimenter when testing an hypothesis or a theory. The scientific process has six steps (Figure 1.i: 1. observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena 2. Form an hypothesis to explain the phenomena 3. Generate a prediction based on the hypothesis 4. Experimental tests of the prediction 5. Draw conclusions from experimental results 6. Evaluate conclusions and either retest hypothesis or redesign hypothesis and experiment If an experiment supports the hypothesis, it may eventually come to be regarded as a theory or law of nature. the experiment does not support the hypothesis, it must be rejected or modified. Experimental tests may lead either to the confirmation of the hypothesis or to the ruling out of the hypothesis. The scientific method requires that an hypothesis be ruled out or modified if its predictions are clearly and repeatedly incompatible with experimental tests. Further, a theory\'s predictions must agree with experimental results if it is a valid description of nature.

Solution

In a scientific approach, observations are those which can consider for finding new things. We observe the potentiality of a study to find the further researches. In the instructor’s demonstration, we remarked the following observations:

Instructor is keen to show a study on communication process of termites. For that, various behaviors of termites are taking to consider. Their living environment is majorly in tropical regions. Social behaviors of termites represent how they structured to perform various tasks. Economical behaviors are considering for both as an important and unimportant. Those behaviors are collective and only reachable if a positive communication is present. For that instructor show that pheromones are majorly responsible because termites are blind. Other methods also have taken for consideration; vibrations and physical contact. Here we can consider about more findings on either vibrations or physical method. That is because pheromone method is already studied which as observable in the study.

Hypothesis: that is a starting point with potentiality for further investigation.