Name six processes that are often involved in scientific inquiry?

1. Use your experience to help you characterize the problem.

2. Form a conjecture (or hypothesis) that explains the observations and measurements of the subject.

3. Deduce a prediction from that explanation (reasoning including logical deduction[30] from the hypothesis).

4. Test - conduct experiments that test the predictions.

5. Publish and subject the above to the scrutiny of your scientific peers.