Standardized Scientific Research Methodology

"My aim here is to give a very brief overview of some of the main methodological points you should be aware of when planning your own research, or deciding whether you should trust research that someone else has done.
The idea of research, of course, is to make discoveries, understand things better, and in long run to improve things. It’s useful to make this a little more definite by thinking of what the outputs from a research project might be"