A third use would be a more specific way to test ideas about the cause of the disease.

They do research to test their ideas about people's actions.

I've just never had anybody actually try to test their ideas against the real world like that.

And again we have a robot model to test our ideas of this process on.

The drawings can then be used as the starting point for the children to test their ideas.

Even so, there is no shortage of money for testing the idea.

It calls on pupils to test their ideas against the evidence, and to give reasons.

He used her to test his ideas, to refine them.

Indeed, that was a reason he started the science ethics camp three years ago, to test his ideas.

"A lot of it was opinion, not like science where you could actually demonstrate things and test your ideas."