Everything about Experiment
Scientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. There also exist natural experimental studies. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ExperimentA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) ExperimentInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Invisible ManThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment DesignCited 11,967 times
- Go sideways: Quasi-experimentA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Design of experimentsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
Noun Experience, practical familiarity with something.
Verb To conduct an experiment.
Verb To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories
An experiment in linguistic synthesis with a fuzzy logic controller
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide): experiment, theory and application
Block Copolymer Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
🆕 Influential since 2022
First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
Do ESG ratings promote corporate green innovation? A quasi-natural experiment based on SynTao Green Finance's ESG ratings
Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
Review of: "Experiment (nanoelectronic memory) using small organic molecules Chlorophyll pseudo instead of charge storage capacitors"
Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
📚 Books worth reading
The Invisible ManH. G. Wells
Houghton Mifflin Science CaliforniaHoughton Mifflin Company Staff · 2006
The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James, Dr. William James · 1817
ChemistryTheodore L. Brown, H. Eugene Lemay · 1977
Life After LifeRaymond A. Moody · 1975
Stay Out of the BasementRobert Lawrence Stine · 1992
Experience and educationJohn Dewey · 1938
Forty studies that changed psychologyRoger R. Hock, Roger R. Hock · 1992
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Quasi-experiment A quasi-experiment is a research design used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention. This research design is aimed at assessing the difference…
- Design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experimental design, refers to the construction of procedures that attempt to explain how changes in one…
- Confounding In causal inference, confounding is a form of systematic error (or bias) that can distort estimates of causal effects in observational studies. A confounder…
- Propensity score matching In the statistical analysis of observational data, propensity score matching (PSM) is a statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect…
- Research design Research design refers to the overall strategy utilized to answer research questions. A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying…
- Scientific control A scientific control is an element of an experiment or observation designed to minimize the influence of variables other than the independent variable…
- Random assignment Random assignment or random placement is an experimental technique for assigning human participants or animal subjects to different groups in an experiment…
- Field experiment Field experiments are experiments carried out outside of laboratory settings. They are different from others in that they are conducted in real-world settings…