Magnus Manske wrote:
Ah, now I see: This "experiment" is, truth be
told, an Alzheimer
prevention program to make you remember your password! :-)
Seriously: While a scientific experiment is open in its outcome, it is
in some way designed along an expectation, namely that your working
hypothesis is correct. Only if the experiment shows that this hypothesis
is false, you will consider altering or abandoning it.
At least in the science I'm familiar with, you might personally think
that your hypothesis is correct (or else you would have hypothesized
something else), but the *experiment* is supposed to be designed from
the point of view of a skeptic who believes it to be false.
-Mark