I genuinely think it's a great piece, no sarcasm intended (though I obviously playfully ignored the fact that the OP was implying the opposite) Experiments in

I genuinely think it's a great piece, no sarcasm intended (though I obviously playfully ignored the fact that the OP was implying the opposite) Experiments in general are meant to be simplistic. The goal is to remove as many confounding factors as possible to isolate a single phenomenon and study it. From there, he builds up to a more realistic model by incorporating more and more factors.