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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
You can have real world, and you can have controlled experimentation. You can't have them both.
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This is where we will have to politely agree to disagree. Designing an experiment to mimic real world conditions and yet to be able to adjust single variables is the Holy Grail of experimentation. It may be difficult and at times may require multiple attempts from different directions to acquire useful data, but it is what researchers strive to accomplish. It is why 'good' experiments take more sweat and effort to design then they do to perform. If you abrogate all obligation for the thoughtful design of an experiment because you advocate the essence of Chaos Theory, then you are throwing darts with your eyes closed and hoping to hit something...if you do, it is pure luck and not by design.