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-- Adam Savage
Mythbusters embodied the scientific method, but I do wish they'd stopped to actually properly explain it at some point. "Writing it down" is definitely part of the process, but it's not the whole process. The whole process is what they actually did in most of their episodes:
Sometimes they played fast and loose with some of these steps to make entertaining TV. But, fundamentally, they were doing science.
Screwing around still covers parts 1-3 though. You say something stupid (hypothesis), your friend dares you to do it (experimentation planning), and you do it (experiment).
What's the hypothesis there?
"I'm going to piss on that window." doesn't involve a testable hypothesis.
I could totally chuck an egg on that roof!
Nuh uh your arm is worse than mine!
Chucks the egg
I mean presumably they wrote it down when they wrote the script
[Stares shamefully at sparsely populated Obsidian vault, thinking about all bullshit I tinker with just long enough to set it up and forget how the next time I go back to it]
Anything can be observable, but "iterative processes" makes it sound fancy