Scientific Method

The scientific method really is a way for scientists to organize their experiments, and of course something for students to learn about and get bored by. It's not neccisary for an experiment. If you dont follow the scientific method the experiment wont preform any differently, your data will just be less organized. The steps are as simple as "look at something happening" then "figure out what you think will happen if you mess with whatever it is that's happening" then "make an experiment where you mess with whatevers happening in one way, be able to view whatever your testing on" then "execute your experiment and see if anything is different, and if it is then compare it to whatever is happening in it natural order" then "record you findings and tell other people". Your hypothesis is just your deciding what you think will happen based on previously known facts, when you tweek something out of its natural order. A theory is a way of describing how things work, like a diagram/text book thingy. a scientific law is a statement that something happens like gravity and is explained by a theory.
The two sites we looked at took, what appear to be, very different stances on the scientific method. The wikipedia one told the much more known variation of the scientific method being used for one experiment with the end result being to publish your results. It's version was more for the one time scientist that is just messing around, or a kid doing something in a science fair/school project. The other site's scientific method was probably more accurate for scientist's whose jobs are to discover stuff and do serious science. It said the final two steps were to use your information to predict other phenominon (or however you spell it) and then to have other independant scientists repeat the experiment. It is difficult to determine which site is more beleavable because in their own ways they are more beleavable than the other. For instance the wikipedia one uses lots of examples and is more "common man" friendly (which can lead some to finding the site more beleavable). The other one sounds a lot smarter and that can go a long way to convincing someone of its validity (mighta spelled that wrong). So its difficult to say which is more beleavable.