Verifiedbeginner
How to turn an interest into a project
A four-step method for getting from "I like marine biology" to a question you can test with the equipment you actually have.
- topic-selection
- scoping
- getting-started
Choosing a Topic6 min
Resources
Curated guides, templates, and reading — the things worth knowing before you need them.
4 resources
Verifiedbeginner
Question, hypothesis, prediction — three different things
The distinction judges probe and most students blur.
- hypothesis
- prediction
- mechanism
Research Questions5 min
Verifiedbeginner
Writing a falsifiable hypothesis
A worked template, plus the four failure modes that make a hypothesis untestable.
- hypothesis
- falsifiability
- template
Verifiedintermediate
Your model needs a baseline
Why 94% accuracy can be a terrible result, and what to compare against instead.
- baseline
- evaluation
- metrics
Machine Learning7 min