Generally, it is reasonable to assume that the instruments are reliable and will keep true and accurate time. This prerequisite is essential to a hypothesis establishing itself as an accepted scientific truth.įor example, if you are performing a time critical experiment, you will be using some type of stopwatch. Without this replication of statistically significant results, the experiment and research have not fulfilled all of the requirements of testability. This will reinforce the findings and ensure that the wider scientific community will accept the hypothesis.
Other researchers must be able to perform exactly the same experiment, under the same conditions and generate the same results.
The idea behind reliability is that any significant results must be more than a one-off finding and be inherently repeatable.
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