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These other scientists now have the ability to conduct the exact same experiments we did to check if the results agree. This is important because no one and nothing is ever perfect, and a scientific result that can't be replicated is no result at all. These scientists can also take the results of our experiment to now form their own questions, starting the whole process all over again and allowing knowledge to move forward one experiment at a time.
==Examples:==
Our Sky Scientist might write a brief paper explaining that he believed the blue color in the sky was a reflection of the blue color of the lakes. He would explain how he conducted the experiment and how he controlled for the other variables like peer pressure to conform among the group. Then he would list the results of the experiment and the sources and size of the error before concluding that the Sky's color was not a reflection of the waters. This would allow someone else to conduct a similar experiment to verify that, while statistically unlikely, our first scientists group wasn't completely colorblind. It would also allow for a new scientist to propose that the sunlight hitting the atmosphere scatters at different angles depending on the wavelength of the light with blue light scattering more than red hence the sky looking blue.
Our DNA experimentalists would also list their hypothesis of a helix shaped molecule and the prediction this made. They would explain how they took the Xray photos and then the results of those photos. Other scientists can now scrutinize their procedure to make sure that they didn't do something that would mess up the results of the experiment and some of them could use the helical structure and start trying to figure out how the DNA unwinds to communicate it's instructions to the cell.
 
 
 
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