I wonder if using your laptop plugged in at your desk 90% of the time, but carrying it around to use in meetings the other 10%, is as good as their "ideal use."
Well as long as there continue to be long, drawn-out, rambling meetings, we're good to go! Although in that case, a short battery life is a feature: "Oops, I'm at 5%! Be right back while I fetch my charger!"
It's straightforward to do experiments, control factors affecting experiment, collect data, process is well understood electrochemistry... only thing that might make it "not science" is that it's too well understood so you may claim it's just engineering instead :)
