The Scientific Method

Research is the Knowledge gained through reasoning, intuition, and through the use of appropriate methods. The scientific method involves a series of steps that are used to investigate a natural occurrence. It is a process where scientists overtime constructs an accurate representation of the world. The scientific Method has six steps; finding the problem/question, observation/research, formulate a hypothesis, experiment, collect and analyze results, and find a conclusion. To begin with, you should start out by finding what your topic is and defining the problem (this is usually a question), a question about your topic that should need answering, making sure your topic is not too vague, collect and organize information (Research) and creating a testable hypothesis (Walliman, 2005).
A hypothesis is a statement that can be proven or disproven. It is basically an educated guess/explanation of how things work. You can have more than one proposed hypothesis to a research. If there are cases as such, it will always be narrowed down to just one and the scientific method/process will continue. A hypothesis has to be testable so that it can be proven or disproven (Prunckun, 2014). An example of a hypothesis in relation to criminal justice is “If an officer wears a camera when he/she is doing their job then,
To start doing the experiment process there are things that need to be determined and designed to be able to test the hypothesis (Walliman, 2005). In the experiment process, there would be observations, records, and data. Anything that is found is considered raw data and can be used to determine the effects that the different variables have on the experiment. Measurements are important and when conducting a research, you should always rely on facts and not opinions. Scientists use drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams, and photographs, written observations, and recordings (Walliman,