Just really showing off the level of articulation from the comms on this lemmy community and maybe even their intelligence.
I made a post about experimenting with compressed air and showing that it results in a mist coming out which would be an experiment without a hypothesis and related to science.
The post would reasonably be able to stay up given then only rule is be kind, but there’s now unsaid rules the mods will make up.
An experiment without a hypothesis is not science, it’s just fucking around.
There are absolutely studies done just to suggest what the hypothesis for the next experiment should be - terrible example, bad science, sorry, but the first one that popped into my head - the corrected ROGD paper
Actually it is science on account that there’s a natural phenomenon observed and then hypothesis get developed to explain the observation later on experiments get articulated to test those hypothesis.
Turns out it’s a circle