A scientist publisher accepts the experimental results for printing.

No one in the scientific community agrees with the methods or results.

Other scientists perform the same experiment and get comparable results

The scientific researcher preforms the experiment many times and gets the same results.

Scientists hire editors to review their lab reports to make sure that their explanations are clear and concise and to change anything that doesn’t sound good.

Scientists partner with mathematicians to check over all their data and charts and graphs to ensure that there is enough data, but if not, they can add to the data.

Scientists repeat their experiments just a few times to show that they can get the same results more than once and to catch any mistakes in the procedure.

The scientists repeat their experiments over and over many times to ensure that they have taken everything into consideration to communicate quality results.

A student designs an experiment on plant growth that includes multiple trials.

One scientist carries out the same experiment performed by another scientist to validate the results.

A scientist poses a new question for investigation after reading the results of another scientist’s work.

A scientist analyzes the data included in the published work of another scientist and agrees with the conclusions