1. To motivate the experiment as having some value; 
2. To explain to readers so that they can understand what the experiment is showing. 

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Literature review is not about the experiment itself but rather about what it might mean. It scopes what a good experiment should look like by defining the gap in knowledge that a suitable experiment could fill. How an experimenter fills that gap is a matter of design.

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