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Hypothesis-led Problem Solving

Stating your best explanation early, then testing it against evidence that could prove it wrong.

What is Hypothesis-led Problem Solving?

Stating your best explanation early, then testing it against evidence that could prove it wrong.

What you learn

State your best explanation and the result that would prove it wrong.

When it helps

you have competing explanations for a problem and need to decide what evidence would rule one out.

Use it at work

  1. Write your best explanation.
  2. Write the result that would prove it wrong.
  3. Run the cheapest test that could produce that result.
  4. Keep, change or drop the explanation based on the result.

Your output

Before your next test, write your explanation and the result that would make you drop it.

Watch for

Collecting data with no explanation to test, or looking only for support.

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