The trouble with this way of looking at it is that it tends to make all kinds of everyday activities (e.g. baking) count as 'scientific' as long as the person d

The trouble with this way of looking at it is that it tends to make all kinds of everyday activities (e.g. baking) count as 'scientific' as long as the person doing them is being methodical. That's fine as far as it goes, but from a historical point of view it leaves it as a bit of a mystery why science as we now recognise it has not existed for most of human history.