avoid fluke results
"They were doing an experiment" is past tense.
The purpose is why you are doing the experiment. What do you want to fond out?? The hypothesis is your prediction on the outcome of the experiment. It is usually written in an If...Then...Because form
The purpose is why you are doing the experiment. What do you want to fond out?? The hypothesis is your prediction on the outcome of the experiment. It is usually written in an If...Then...Because form
Replication, in this sense meaning getting the same results from the same experiment, is the only way to verify that the observations were not the result of some error, or of some random factor that only affects the experiment in some cases but not all cases. For example, the result of a botany experiment may be completely different if the air temperature and relative humidity varies, as these can affect plants. For bacterial experiments, accidental contamination of containers can skew the results by introducing other organisms (that could either promote or hinder growth).When an experiment is repeated several times, there is a better chance that the data is correct and the conclusions are valid. Another term used for this concept is reproducibility.
the purpose of doing an experiment is to discover new things
Scientists, like everyone else, are imperfect. You cannot be absolutely sure that you have not made a mistake or overlooked something when you do an experiment, but if you do it several times and get the same result, then you can be more confident that you did it correctly. If you do it several times and get different results, that is a clue that tells you that there is something about the experiment that you have failed to understand.
Scientists, like everyone else, are imperfect. You cannot be absolutely sure that you have not made a mistake or overlooked something when you do an experiment, but if you do it several times and get the same result, then you can be more confident that you did it correctly. If you do it several times and get different results, that is a clue that tells you that there is something about the experiment that you have failed to understand.
Doing duplicates means doing the experiment / process two times. Doing triplicates means doing the experiment / process three times.
When doing a controlled experiment, you get accurate results.
dependent variable
It depends, if you are doing an experiment on temperatures of water in nature, you will need it. If you are doing an experiment on how fast different species of turtles can walk, you don't.
Because it will perform a test of how two variables might be related. This is when you are doing a real experiment.