The Scientific Method Reading Answers
Reading Passage
The Academic passage ‘The Scientific Method’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 29-40. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that prove the answers.
The Scientific Method
Answers
Question numbers | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
29 | iv | Inductive, formulation starts with – basic, raw evidence of the senses | Para C, line 1-9 |
30 | vii | Hypotheses, ‘initiative and incentive for the inquiry and influence the method’ | Para D, line 10-16 |
31 | iii | Guesswork, having been formulated they can. | Para E, first 5 lines |
32 | v | ‘some idea of what your results will tell you before you even begin to collect data;’ | Para F, first 8 lines |
33 | vi | hypothetico-deductive method proceeds in a step-by-step, inevitable fashion. been, quite properly, organised into a more serial, logical order so that the worth of the output may be evaluated independently of the behavioural processes by which it was obtained. | Para G, line 6-23 |
34 | B | ‘It is essential that you, as an intending researcher, understand the difference between these two interpretations of the research process…’ | Para B, first 5 lines |
35 | F | ‘So don’t worry if you have some idea of what your results will tell you before you even begin to collect data; there are no scientists in existence who really wait until they have all the evidence in front of them before they try to work out what it might possibly mean…’ | Para F, first 4 lines |
36 | YES | Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1972, 3rd edition) that the nature of scientific method is hypothetico-deductive | Para A, line 6-9 |
37 | NO | If the predictions turn out to be correct then your hypothesis has been supported and may be retained until such time as some further test shows it not to be correct. | Para E, line 10-15 |
38 | NOT GIVEN | – | |
39 | YES | The hypothetico-deductive method describes the logical approach to much research work, but it does not describe the psychological behaviour that brings it about. This is much more holistic — involving guesses, reworkings, corrections, blind alleys and above all inspiration, in the deductive as well as the hypothetical component -than is immediately apparent from reading the final thesis or published papers. | Para G, line 6-18 |
40 | D | – |
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