The phrase experimental investigation is used to highlight that experiments are dynamic practices, and that there are multiple types of experiments – including hypothesis-testing experiments and exploratory experiments (Burian 1997, 2013; Feest & Steinle 1997; Steinle 1997, 2016a).
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