A lot of great discoveries started from anecdotes. (Or put in in another way: why don't we measure if the number of deers in Germany hair correlates with weath

A lot of great discoveries started from anecdotes. (Or put in in another way: why don't we measure if the number of deers in Germany hair correlates with weather in Australia? Because they are even no anecdotes it does, or wild guesses why it might.) Sure, a lot of self-reported self-tinkering may be qualified more like high-risk fun. Yet, people performing experiments on their own is not a new story.