Explain how the scientific method impacted American culture during the Gilded Age

The scientific method revolutionized the study of human society during the Gilded Age and onward; sparking curiosity within the members of society, and encouraged people to gain knowledge, discover and investigate; causing them to question old credence, and starting to prove them wrong, thus leading to technological advances, and large scale production methods, the inception of intellectual movements and favored drastic reforms in education, thus bringing opportunities to other scope of the population, because racial, ethnic, religious, gender and socioeconomic inequalities still abounded, so it also inspired some reformers to address those inequities in some form.