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Did they create test cases, wrote a protocol about the results?

Just trying something out and see what happens isn’t experimenting

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That’s exactly what an experiment is.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/exper...

"a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true"

A test has usually a hypothesis and a documented result.

Teenagers would experiment a lot less with sex and drugs, if that was the requirement ;)

(Or what would we call the thing the teenagers do?)

Would you call those teenagers mindful?

I a way yes, it is their duty to their future happiness to explore. No doubt some will not word it like that, but I met some that really do (and I envy them, I was indeed a bit mind/clue-less).

Fwiw, I call that experimenting.

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