The linear, stepwise representation of the process of science is oversimplified, but it does get at least one thing right.
Though many useful points are embodied in this method, it can easily be misinterpreted as linear and “cookbook”: pull a problem off the shelf, throw in an observation, mix in a few questions, sprinkle on a hypothesis, put the whole mixture into a 350° experiment - and voila, 50 minutes later you’ll be pulling a conclusion out of the oven! That might work if science were like Hamburger Helper®, but science is complex and cannot be reduced to a single, prepackaged recipe. The Scientific Method is traditionally presented in the first chapter of science textbooks as a simple recipe for performing scientific investigations.
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