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...Oddly, it states that there is no one single Scientific Method.
Hi, Paul
Why do you consider that odd?
Unless you take 'scientific method' to mean something so general that
the term becomes virtually meaningless, surely there is no one
scientific method. (Do you think it is odd because it does not sit
with some of the other rather simplistic and dubious statements in
the book?)
I work in the UK system where for a while we had a curriculum and
assessment regime in place which encouraged students to see
scientific work in terms of a simple 'control-of-variables'
experimental method. One does not have to adopt an extreme
Feyerabend-like perspective on scientific processes (i.e. the history
of science suggests there is no such thing as scientific method) to
acknowledge there are many scientific fields where such an approach
is seldom adopted or even possible.