It should be lightness, not blank slate. Some hypotheses are clearly better than others, but one shouldn’t typically be confident in things that were not observed with sufficient clarity, which means constant search for experimental tests and alternative explanations.
Programming is probably the most intensive mode of application for basic scientific method, by the sheer volume of hypotheses and experiments required to get anything done.
It should be lightness, not blank slate. Some hypotheses are clearly better than others, but one shouldn’t typically be confident in things that were not observed with sufficient clarity, which means constant search for experimental tests and alternative explanations.
Programming is probably the most intensive mode of application for basic scientific method, by the sheer volume of hypotheses and experiments required to get anything done.