•Replicability
•Precision
•Parsimony
•Falsifiability
Replicability
•When other people follow the same steps in your research and get the same or identical result.
Precision
•Theoretical concepts, which are often
hard to measure, must be defined with such precision that
others can use those definitions to measure those concepts and test that
theory.
Parsimony
•When there are many explanations of a
phenomenon, researchers must accept the simplest and most logical of them, to
prevent explaining with many complex theories. This concept is called Parsimony or “Occam’s Razor”.
•Occam’s razor or Ockham’s Razor is a
principle from philosophy.
Falsifiability
•A theory must always be stated in a way
that it can be Disproved.
•It must be tested or falsified
•Theories that cannot be tested or
falsified are not scientific theories and any such knowledge is not scientific
knowledge.
•Whose concepts are not accurately
measurable cannot be tested, and is therefore not scientific.
Others Characteristics
of Scientific Method
•Verifiability
•Objectivity
•Generalization
•Systematic
study
•Control
•Scientific
research design
•Power of
prediction
•Cause and
effect relationship
•Theorization
•Universability
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