{"id":42,"date":"2026-10-06T03:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/test-the-answer-you-expect-first\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:16:45","slug":"test-the-answer-you-expect-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/test-the-answer-you-expect-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Test the answer you expect first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a question is split into a tree, it is tempting to work through every branch in order. That is slow, and most branches turn out not to matter.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pick the hypothesis your managers already suspect, or the one your own data can check in a day. Test it first. If it holds, you have the start of the answer; if not, you have ruled out the obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark the result on the tree the same day. A ruled-out branch is worth as much as a confirmed one, as long as everybody can see it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with the hypothesis most likely to hold, or the cheapest to check (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-avante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}