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Experimentalist

Experimentalist \Ex*per`i*men"tal*ist\, n.

  1. One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.
    --Whaterly.

  2. One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist.

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experimentalist

n. 1 One who performs experiments. 2 A person who values the results of experiments over theory. 3 A person who seeks or enjoys new experiences.

Usage examples of "experimentalist".

So it is with hybrids, for hybrids in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed.

Most physicists would be far happier with one of two things: a bona fide prediction from string theory that experimentalists could confirm, or a postdiction of some property of the world (like the mass of the electron or the existence of three families of particles) for which there is currently no explanation.

After all, experimentalists can establish—in fact, already have established—the number of particle families: 3.

Like therapists, experimentalists find what they are looking for--what their biases direct their attention towards.

The point is that psychology, both the experimentalists and the therapists, has taken decades to get started trying to "giving psychology away" and still generally has little apparent interest in doing so.

But when our world suffered from heat pollution due to too much use of Industrial power, Experimentalists moved our world outward into the cometary halo.

The sterility is of all degrees, and is often so slight that the two most careful experimentalists who have ever lived, have come to diametrically opposite conclusions in ranking forms by this test.

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