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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When you're doing an experiment you set up the conditions and then observe the results. If you need to constantly involve yourself then you're running a bad experiment. "Experiment" is a terrible way to describe democracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what word would you use instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Case study seems like the most fitting research design terminology.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Then how am I supposed to support a coup in a socialist country and say "socialism failed the experiment"?