• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Because you can’t employ the scientific method with only one person.

    You need at least 2 to perform peer reviews.

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      5 months ago

      Peer review isn’t typically included in the list of steps to the scientific method. Or, if it is, it’s a coda, not part of the main steps.

      Dictionary.com for example lists the commonly accepted steps, and then follows it up with “usually followed by peer review and publication.”

      https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scientific-method

      Note the “usually.”

      It’s also worth noting that there is no real “formalized” or “official” scientific method. Just some agreed upon commonalities. Any dozen science books will give you a dozen different graphs of the steps, and no two will be the same.