There are loads of depictions of the scientific method out there …

This is one I’ve just prepared for a presentation next week. I thought it was worth sharing as is … the key difference is in this one I wanted to highlight the role of existing data in the process, and the necessity of archiving and annotating product data. In anticipation of obvious objections: of course we don’t archive everything, but the point here is that we need to consider archival and annotation as a formal part of the method.

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