And some of those odds really are odd, especially if you go on to GCSE and A-level, where the "methods" become ever more idiosyncratic.
There is a myriad of potential chemical contaminants that can be detected in breast milk as analytical methods become ever more sensitive.
Great advances have been made in techniques for high-throughput epitope validation [ 13, 14], but as computational methods grow ever more powerful, so does the need for post-analysis verification of results.
Researchers at Stanford University are using the new fabrication method to build ever more complex circuits that they hope will soon rival the speed of silicon.
In debates with the Spiritualists and Enthusiasts, who made use of the allegorical-tropological (figurative) method, Luther appealed ever more strongly to the unequivocal "clarity" of the letter of the Scriptures, which contains the "clarity" of the "subject" expressed by it.
Numerical methods are becoming ever more sophisticated and, in conjunction with the rapid rise in computing power, a greater range of problems than ever before can now be addressed.
Bayesian statistical methods are becoming ever more popular in applied and fundamental research.
There are a lot of ways to cheat in sports, of course, and the most notorious is probably doping, the methods of which become ever more subtle and complex even as officials devise ever more sophisticated ways to spot them.
The two factors for the rapid increase are the application of more diverse and intelligent methods for enrichment and isolation and the development of new and ever more sophisticated methods of amplification and sequencing of genes [115].
There is a kind of missionary urgency palpable here: not merely to get people excited about science, or to honor Sagan, or revive a great television brand, all worthy enough — but to stand up for the scientific method itself, in a world ever more polarized by unscientific orthodoxies.
