Any questions?
First a comment then a question.
You did a good job of describing the methodologies of this experiment, but since you titled this thread "Application of the Scientific Method" I had hoped you would have spent a bit more time explaining how the scientific method was applied. I think it is easy for those that work with this stuff on a regular basis to take it for granted, but for those "non-science types" it is not quite as intuitive. I have seen a lot of confusion as to how to actually use the scientific method to come to conclusions.
For example, I like how you tested against competing hypotheses, but I don't think that issue would be clear to someone unfamiliar with the concept. It is critical that you test not only your hypothesis but the competing or null hypothesis. How often have you heard that a particular result is compatible with an ID hypothesis, which it may indeed be, but if the results are also compatible with the null hypothesis, then you cannot draw a conclusion based on those results. These are the types of things that maybe could be better addressed in this thread.
I'm going to put my question in a separate post.
HBD
Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for. But until the end of the present exile has come and terminated this our imperfection by which "we know in part," I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
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