an online book by David Gurteen
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results.
Credit: Wikipedia - experimentReason tells us that political deliberation would be most fruitful if it treated governance more like scientific experimentation and less like an extreme-sports competition. | Steven Pinker Continue reading Treating Governance Like Scientific Experimentation Steven Pinker
In complex systems, we cannot reliably predict how change will unfold. Plans that assume clear relationships between cause and effect can easily produce unexpected consequences. Safe-to-fail probes offer a different approach: make several small interventions, observe what happens, and adapt our actions as the situation evolves. Continue reading Safe-to-fail Probes: Rethinking Change in Complexity Probing, sensing, and responding when the way forward is uncertain
