&gt; And you do experiments in many fields!<p>See you are proving my own point. Just because you do exploratory stuff and run &quot;experiments&quot; that doesn&#x27;t make what you science. What isn&#x27;t science then?<p>&gt; I have done a lot of performance work in my career, and there you run experiments almost continuously<p>Yes me too. But I am not a scientist like Einstein.<p>There is a stretch in going from I am debugging some program and trying various things to saying I am a scientist.<p>You can sure call yourself a scientist but you have to explore why you want to do that. Is to make yourself feel better because the word &quot;programmer&quot; is boring or implies a lower status. What about craftsman, you are&quot; crafting software&quot; is that imply something undesirable, if so why? What about business problem solver?<p>Licensed engineers even scoff at software &quot;engineers&quot; even calling themselves &quot;engineers&quot; (even though what most computer scientist do is kind of like engineering),  because they don&#x27;t have a license etc.