There's effectively a conspiracy to hide this guessing from students. The guessers themselves hide it in the tidying they do before publication, and science teachers hide it because they don't even know it happened.
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One thing I didn't get about technical fields as a kid is that rigor is the standard ideas have to meet, not the source of them. The source is often the cheesiest sort of guessing.
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Exactly like painting or any creative endeavour.
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That's why trying new ideas and iterating on them are extremely important in any creative endeavour. Most ideas won't ever work, but you don't notice until you try them. Those ideas which do work, only do after several iterations of tinkering.
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Popper emphasised this point strongly
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Can you give a pointer, please?
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And "harmless" fudging of data ;)
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I can't personally understand studies that work with choices for 3-10 options when a choice between 2 actually makes for a harder decision with less bias.
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Mapmaking is not the same as navigating.
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Yeah it took me while to understand the seemingly undue importance given to "writing" when talking about research.
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