The Lab · Workshop 02 · Foundation
A Good Guess That Costs You Something
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Hypothesis.
The Lab · Workshop 02 · Foundation
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Hypothesis.
A real hypothesis is the kind of guess that risks being wrong — and tells you exactly what "wrong" would look like.
A hypothesis is not "I think it might happen." A hypothesis is "I think this will happen, in this amount, under these conditions — and if I see that instead, I was wrong."
The discipline is to say what you'd see if you were right, AND what you'd see if you were wrong. If your guess can't be wrong, it's not a hypothesis — it's a wish.
By the end of this workshop you'll have written one real hypothesis about something in your house, including what would prove you wrong.
That's the warm-up. When you've actually read it — not skimmed — tap below.
Pick the ones that are specific enough to be wrong.
Click a part, then its job.
Pick something you can actually test. Write IF (the change you'll make), THEN (what you predict), and the wrong-look (what you'd see if you were wrong).
Stuck? Try: IF I drop a piece of paper crumpled vs. flat from the same height, THEN the crumpled one will land first. WRONG would look like: they land at the same time, or the flat one lands first.
One sentence.