To put on a different hat for this: when I went to do my Master's thesis, I actually did not have a hypothesis nor did I have expected results. Maybe it was unique for us, but we actually did not know what to expect for the outcome of the research, that was the whole point of it.
We had procedures so that when we came up with a result, it could be validated and we made sure we didn't do anything that could have tainted the research.
We had procedures so that when we came up with a result, it could be validated and we made sure we didn't do anything that could have tainted the research.