Researcher FindItOut has always loved playing video games si…

Researcher FindItOut has always loved playing video games since she was a little girl. She started to manipulate a city planning game (Sim City) in order to simulate a city without pollution and poverty. She started to realize that there is a positive relation between green energy and wealth. She had a nice theoretical model, but wondered if it would hold in reality. She decided to go to grad school in order to collect data and test her hypothesis. This is an example of: