A relevant follow up question could be: What makes it more (or less) likely that a group or an organisation does make plans to evaluate the results of an experiment?
Some ideas:
Culture. It would be helpful to have (or create) a culture that doesn’t see a “failed” experiment as a failure but as an important learning opportunity.
Intellectual humility. Running a true experiment (and not just calling one’s plan “experiment”) requires accepting that one has less certainty about how the world works.
I think you are making an important point.
A relevant follow up question could be: What makes it more (or less) likely that a group or an organisation does make plans to evaluate the results of an experiment?
Some ideas:
Culture. It would be helpful to have (or create) a culture that doesn’t see a “failed” experiment as a failure but as an important learning opportunity.
Intellectual humility. Running a true experiment (and not just calling one’s plan “experiment”) requires accepting that one has less certainty about how the world works.