Question

Which characteristic should a good scientific question have?

Answer 1

moved to... uh, well, we don't have a general science section so I'll put this in Physics maybe?

next time please post the choices
It should lead to a hypothesis that is not testable.
It should have a very broad focus with many variables.
It should repeat a question that the researcher has answered before.
It should be based on observations instead of just imagination.

Answer 2

with that out of the way I'll eliminate 2 choices and let you decide between the remaining two
1. It should lead to a hypothesis that is not testable. --> this is false, a good hypothesis ***should*** be testable otherwise we won't be able to design an experiment that will help substantiate or reject the hypothesis
2. It should have a very broad focus with many variables. --> this is also false, a good study should only be testing the effect of *one* variable on another, and the focus should be narrow

so between choices 3 and 4 which one do you think is a characteristic of a *good* scientific question?

Answer 3

Thanks