Ask yourself, how does a teenager go from anxiously eyeing their Netflix subscription to getting an award at a science fair? If you said the scientific process, then you are absolutely correct!
The whole process is somewhat a form of confused cause-and-effect, as a scientist sees an effect and tries to find the cause or the same in reverse. To put it into perspective, imagine a staircase covered in ice. You must very carefully ascend the steps, or you will simply fall back down. That is, unless you salted the steps, giving you a clear path. The figurative salt is the scientific process, as it makes clear the steps that must be taken to succeed.
I hold my experience in past science fairs as the structural foundation to my idea of what the scientific process looks like, but I use my experience as a video gamer to form the big picture. When I get stuck in a video game, I use a walk through to learn how I should progress in the game. When I am handed an entry form for a science fair, I use the scientific process to build myself an experiment out of the first real issue I come upon.
My gaming and education have even come together in the past, which gives me such a good comparison, but a person's idea of what the scientific process stands for is always going to be different.
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