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What is the alternative? Wild guess based research? Faith based research? I'm having a hard time envisioning how you'd design an experiment, and extract knowled

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  "Hypothesis-driven research is based on scientific theories, while exploration is based on a search for discovery backed by few theories or none at all." "With hypothesis testing, researchers present what the study hopes to accomplish, how it will be done and possible outcomes. [..] Meanwhile, exploratory research examines unknown areas with no or little-known theories to back them -- perceived as a riskier bet." - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927105138.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927105138.h... > I'm having a hard time envisioning how you'd design an experiment, and extract knowledge, without a hypothesis "Often, a proposal to gain observational experience is dismissed as being a "fishing expedition"…but how can one devise a workable hypothesis to test without first acquiring basic knowledge of the system, and how better to obtain such basic knowledge than to observe the system without any preconceived notions?" - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11702 https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11702
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