well let's start with observation there's many different ways to sense the world right we can some of us would use sight sound like hearing sensing touching tasting whatever senses you use you're going to observe feel hear see something and from there then we're going to come up with this question that we have about that thing that we just sensed once we have our research question then we want to have a hypothesis like oh there's this general phenomena or so there's a general idea to explain this phenomena and then we want to make our prediction if this happens then this will happen so really from our observation we rapidly go into our research question because before you realize you're observing something you have a question about it is the way it goes then you start getting more sciency all right what hypothesis could explain this phenomena what law what theory what's out there and then you make a prediction well if this happens then this will happen and pretty much from there you then conduct your experiment or study it doesn't have to be an experiment where you're controlling and or manipulating variables a lot of my research is observational when we're conducting research with lemurs we're not going to you know do certain things with them just so we can answer a question right we wouldn't be allowed to do that so we usually do more instead of experimenting we would do more like observational studies and then what are your results well once you get your results back to the drawing board if we look over here on the right at this image again observation question hypothesis and if you go down here to getting your results analyzing your data looking it over the hypothesis could be supported or it may not have been supported and we're going to report the results either way the world needs to know right unless it's like part of a study that you're going to do some more with but typically we still can report negative results or hypotheses not being supported in the scientific literature what happens is in typically when it's the hypothesis is not supported back to the drawing board we try again we refine the hypothesis we change the hypothesis we do something a little different and again use our methods conduct our study look at the results analyze them and see what we have then so this is a part of science where we keep going back and repeating and doing things again and again what we want to find is a possible explanation for the thing that we observe for the thing that we had a question about for the thing that we made a hypothesis we're really looking for a possible explanation for that observation and really we have to test it to determine its validity we need to know is the hypothesis i made about this observation is it valid is it not valid and there's so many different ways to test this to the process of even making a hypothesis is iterative iterative it's repeating we're going to do it again and again and again as well as using the scientific method for a particular study it is iterative and we're going to repeat it again and again we're going to have our hypothesis or we have the observation then we have our hypothesis we conduct our study analyze the data and we see huh was it the hypothesis supported or not and then we go back and we repeat