{"id":137,"date":"2016-07-27T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:59:12","slug":"the-scientific-method","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/home\/the-science-toolkit\/the-scientific-method\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientific Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific method will be discussed under five main topic headings. The first, What is Science?, introduces the basic approach scientists take to solving problems. The second, Reason &#038; Logic, outlines some elements of critical thinking which are important to a scientific approach. The last three topics provide tools for developing a sound hypothesis, designing a study to test a hypothesis, and analyzing data collected in a study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific method will be discussed under five main topic headings. The first, What is Science?, introduces the basic approach scientists take to solving problems. The second, Reason &#038; Logic, outlines some elements of critical thinking which are important to a scientific approach. The last three topics provide tools for developing a sound hypothesis, designing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/home\/the-science-toolkit\/the-scientific-method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scientific Method<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/science-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}