"hypothetical experiment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a thought experiment or a test that is not actually carried out. For example, "The professor proposes a hypothetical experiment to determine the best course of action."
I had been to the zoo, and I asked Pääbo about a hypothetical experiment.
Gage described a hypothetical experiment involving the animals: "Take ten of them.
To settle the matter, consider the following hypothetical experiment: A well-educated time traveller from 1914 enters a room divided in half by a curtain.
These two methods are illustrated with a hypothetical experiment designed to compare the effectiveness of two migraine headache remedies.
Metrologists working on electricity have refined experiments that count the flow of individual electrons, allowing them to use the charge on a single such particle to determine the ampere — replacing a definition that is based on a hypothetical experiment involving two infinitely long wires.
Rubin (1974) thus links exposability to counterfactual propositions and the idea of a hypothetical experiment.
The following examples from hypothetical experiments, purposely uncomplicated by distracting detail, illustrate each.
We also find that ratios in real experiments are not significantly different from hypothetical experiments and that incentive-compatible elicitation yields higher ratios.
Despite progress in identifying possible contributions to differences in marginal WTP, there is no solid evidence, although plenty of speculation, to explain the differences between all manner of hypothetical experiments and non-experimental evidence.
The qualification, "in principle" is important because practical, ethical, and other considerations might make some experiments infeasible, that is, limit us to contemplating hypothetical experiments".
SP data, on the other hand, come from hypothetical experiments, which has several advantages (besides the obvious disadvantage of not reflecting real choices).
