In science, methodology is the detailed process used to arrive at a scientific conclusion. As you can imagine, the more the methodology is flawed, the more likely researchers are to come to an inaccurate conclusion. Virtually every published scientific paper has a detailed methodology section for three main reasons: 1) so others could assess how reliable the conclusion is based on the methodology 2) so others could assess that the methodology is actually measuring what it is supposed to be measu. . . See the complete description at http://www.thedrboshow.com/tools/bg/Bo/TheDrBoShow