The revolution comes to science when we finally dethrone the hypothesis-driven mode as the only respectable form of scientific inquiry for grant and thesis proposals.
@itaiyanai The annoying thing about hypothesis-driven advocacy is that everyone, including the advocates, goes on fishing expeditions. Can be long ones
How would you articulate a new hypothesis without having gone on some exploratory endeavor no one else went on before you?
Until you don't bring the "unknown unknowns" into the "known unknowns" you wouldn't be able to know what you didn't know, and claim that now you can make it known.
(Apologies to Donald Rumsfeld & Sir Humphrey Appleby)
@iddux @itaiyanai Even a fishing expedition is implicitly hypothesis-driven. You decide and plan where to look for something new. The hypothesis is that you will find something even if you don't know what that might be.
That's exactly it @PSarkies. To me that's the statement that unifies the two models of being of hypothesis free or hypothesis driven
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