Wisdom Quote by Victor Cheng

“The only reason you use a framework or issue tree is to test a hypothesis!”

— Victor Cheng

“You will do one of two things as soon as you’ve exhausted what you can determine mathematically in the case: (1) Refine your hypothesis…

— Victor Cheng

“You want to run this conclusiveness test on each branch of your issue tree (to see if perhaps that branch should be defined differently…

— Victor Cheng

“If analysis of a branch disproves the hypothesis, you should revise your hypothesis, reconsider what framework or issue tree is needed to test the…

— Victor Cheng

“I can’t emphasize enough how critical it is for you to realize that a framework is really just an issue tree, and an issue…

— Victor Cheng

“This process-of-elimination approach ends once you’ve proven every branch of your issue tree (which may have been revised several times) and can logically conclude…

— Victor Cheng

“It may be tempting to work through the framework diagram mentally and ask all the questions it lists. But by now, you know this…

— Victor Cheng

The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.

— Karl Popper

“If you’re doing the analysis correctly, you are constantly drilling down one branch, discovering it’s not valid, revising your hypothesis (and often the branches…

— Victor Cheng

“Tip #1: Start with the Branch That Eliminates the Most Uncertainty First Identify all the branches you intend to analyze, and then arrange them…

— Victor Cheng

“you will need to conclude by explaining how your findings relate to your research question, as well as to concepts and theories in your…

— Gjoko Muratovski

“The more complex a problem is, the harder it is to capture good feedback. You can gather a lot of facts, and that may…

— Steven D. Levitt