scientific study
Methodical empirical inquiry
Scientific study is systematic investigation using observation, experimentation, and analysis to understand natural phenomena.
The term appears in contexts ranging from formal research to casual citation: A scientific study found that coffee may reduce heart disease risk.
When someone says "studies show," they're invoking the authority of scientific study, though the rigor varies widely.
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
- natural worldNon-artificial environment and organisms
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- reproducibilityAbility to repeat findings
- discoveryAct of finding something
experimentation · clinical trial · astronomy · falsifiability · biology · empirical evidence · peer review · hypothesis testing · data analysis · big data · fieldwork · anthropology · objectivity · physics · causality · explanation · publish · prediction
- sourcesbook, encyclopedia, source, journals, magazine
- near-death experiencesout-of-body, tunnel of light, white light, bright light, life review
- Peer Reviewpeer feedback, feedback, reviewer, referee, evaluation
scientific studyguesswork
Conclusions drawn without proof
speculation · intuition · conjecture · wild guess · hunches
scientific studymysticism
Pursuit of divine union
revelation · dogma · pseudoscience · faith · superstition
scientific studycasual observation
Unstudied comment or notice
idle speculation · anecdote · personal experience · willful ignorance · anti-intellectualism