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Leaning Tower of Pasta
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- Project Question: Leaning Tower of Pasta
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Leaning Tower of Pasta
What would the control group be in this experiment?
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Re: Leaning Tower of Pasta
Hello, and welcome to ScienceBuddies! You have chosen a very exciting project!
When talking about control groups, you are talking about a step in the Scientific Method. Did you know there is another methodology? It is called the Engineering Method. We need to distinguish the difference between a scientist and an engineer for this discussion. Both seek answers but to different questions for different purposes. A scientist uses the Scientific Method to gain further knowledge about a question in nature. An engineer uses the Engineering Method to design and physically build something to answer the question "who needs what and why?"
Take a look here at a comparison between the two methods. Which Method should you use? Once you read this over, feel free to write back, and we can continue the discussion.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/engineer ... thod.shtml
Good luck!
When talking about control groups, you are talking about a step in the Scientific Method. Did you know there is another methodology? It is called the Engineering Method. We need to distinguish the difference between a scientist and an engineer for this discussion. Both seek answers but to different questions for different purposes. A scientist uses the Scientific Method to gain further knowledge about a question in nature. An engineer uses the Engineering Method to design and physically build something to answer the question "who needs what and why?"
Take a look here at a comparison between the two methods. Which Method should you use? Once you read this over, feel free to write back, and we can continue the discussion.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/engineer ... thod.shtml
Good luck!
Deana