Scientific method

A 2 step process of learning and understanding about the world.
I order to begin the process you need a question.

Once you have answers to seek begin the process.
Step 1: fuck around
Step 2: find out

Repeat as many times as necessary.

"hey man, do you think the boys are gonna be on Playstation tonight?"
"only way to know is to use the scientific method."

by TheboysinCS October 3, 2020

Australian rocket scientist

A manual laborer, expecially one involved in digging, excavation. So called because the Australians are known as "diggers" and regarded as being rather dense.

He was digging a ditch, a regular Australian rocket scientist!

by Tom from the Shore November 10, 2007

Rocket Scientist

Sarcastic term of praise handed to someone who deducts the obvious and makes sure as many people as possible recognise that they have pointed out the obvious, in an attempt to sound intelligent.

Hey, that car's on fire!

Oh look at the fucking rocket scientist, as if we didn't notice the huge flames, the explosion that we heard so decided to run here etc. Idiot.

by Gumba Gumba April 13, 2004

scientific method

A method for gathering data about the world around us. Using the scientific method involves coming up with a hypothesis about how something works, and then trying as hard as you can to prove it wrong. If you can't prove yourself wrong then you cannot say you proved yourself right. you can only say you didn't disprove your hypothesis. In the scientific method you can never prove yourself right, you can only prove you weren't wrong. This is often seen as a tedious and annoying aspect of science by outsiders, but in fact scientific minded individuals gain great joy in being skeptical of everything. If you cannot diprove your hypothesis than it is usually phrased something like "The data supported our hypothesis." This is generally followed by a detailed explanation of everything that could have been wrong with your research that could have led to a failure to disprove yourself. Through this method something can become considered a theory only if many many generations of scientists have failed to find any way to prove the hypothesis wrong. This is a considerable accomplishment as most scientists will spend their entire lives finding critiques in method or theory in the research of others, and trying to find a way to disprove their findings. Information acquired in this way is the only information that can be trusted to have any semblance of truth.

Did you hear about how video games make children violent?
Was the scientific method used to reach this conclusion?

Hey a recent study found that fake sweetener can give you cancer.

That study was never replicated.

Evolution is just a theory.
If by theory you mean a conclusion that genarations of researchers have failed to find any way to disprove in hundreds of years time then yes it is.

by pandorlla May 27, 2010

armchair scientist

Someone who has no professional training in science yet has the same augmented ego and clout (and on occasion, the same amount of knowledge on the subject).

Your subconscious is actually the excrement of an opalescent Monodon monoceros. I know. I'm an armchair scientist.

by Mesozoical November 22, 2011

data scientist

Something like a business analyst who writes code, a hacker with social skills, or a software engineer that knows math.
Also just someone management has decided is a "data scientist".

Even though I am a data scientist, I don't think it's specific enough to describe what I do.

by cinf May 6, 2020

Scientist

A person who is able to use the words "horrifying" and "fascinating" in the same sentence, unironically.

As a scientist, I find the mindset behind *insert cultural atrocity* both horrifying and fascinating and I want to study it.

by RavenAngel November 28, 2014