Practice question · Multiple choice
A scientific report must contain enough for another group to repeat the work. Why is that the standard rather than simply reporting the result?
Hints
- Ask how a wrong result gets caught.
- What does another group need in order to try?
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B. Because a result nobody can check is not yet knowledge
Why
Checkability is what makes it science rather than testimony. The method section is not documentation of the past, it is the instructions for the test that has not happened yet.
Practise Scientific Report Writing
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More questions on Scientific Report Writing
- Match each section of a scientific report to its content.
- Which should be included in the conclusion of a lab report?
- Complete the following passage by choosing the correct terms from the word bank.
- Sort each item into the correct section of a lab report.
- Assemble the standard structure of a physics lab report, top to bottom.
- The abstract of a scientific report should be written last, after all other sections are complete.
- Complete the statement with the correct term.