You're bad at analogizing. So people use the scientific method for general science, and people use "advanced degrees" for "studies"? And the standard method of inquiry into pretty much anything academic isn't based on the scientific method? You do know what the scientific method is right?
The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.[2] To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry is commonly based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.[3] The Oxford Dictionaries Online define the scientific method as "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses".[4]
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/scienc...c_method.shtml
There is a flow chart if you're a visual learner.
Also, it appears you tried a different analogism. Is that a word? Anyway, this one is different, and equally terrible.
""Scientific method" is to "Advanced Degree" and "Science" is to "Scientific Study"."
So what you're saying here is you use the scientific method for science, but you use your advanced degree for scientific study?
Do you know what Science means?
Or are you trying to say that you use the scientific method for your advanced degree, and you use science for studying science.
hmmm. that is DEEP. But I'm pretty sure you just use the scientific method, whether you are studying science, or studying why black people have more abortions per capita than white people, for example.