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A little further into the article, the author presents many other arguments in support of his point, and discusses why some types of experiment (e.g., typical m
by mannykannot 9y ago
A little further into the article, the author presents many other arguments in support of his point, and discusses why some types of experiment (e.g., typical medical investigations) may need hypotheses, while others need not (the Hubble telescope was not built to investigate a specific hypothesis.) This article deserves more of a response than one that ignores anything not mentioned in the title.
- gowld 9y agoI'm reminded of research in Computer Science, that generally looks like this: "In this paper we investigate the hypothesis: Is it possible to build something cool? First, we briefly summarize cool things that already exist, then we show how we were able to build something cool, we measure how cool it is (it's cooler than a bunch of competing things!), and finally conclude with some cool ideas that we or you might pursue the future."