Observation vs Experimentation - What's the difference?
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The act of observing, and the fact of being observed.
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A remark or comment.
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A judgement based on observing.
Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
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The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
(sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
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As nouns the difference between observation and experimentation
is that observation is the act of observing, and the fact of being observed while experimentation is experimentation.observation
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Noun
(en noun)A Palette of Particles, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
- That's a foolish observation .
- To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
- We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.
Derived terms
* observation carSee also
* (wikipedia "observation")experimentation
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation . Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}