Precision instruments are essential for testing the hypotheses of the very theoretical science which disparages the achievements of the inventors and technicians who designed and made them.

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When U.S. intelligence tracked down Osama bin Laden, it was a function of brilliant, resourceful people asking questions and testing hypotheses using a variety of technologies.

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Customer-development process, meanwhile, provides a real-world way of testing the business plan's various hypotheses, as written in the canvas' nine blocks.

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However, when he modified his statistical methods to take into account the fact that he was testing 24 hypotheses, not one, the boundary of significance dropped dramatically.

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Bosse points to a study conducted by the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses, a 25-member group of biologists, engineers and statisticians representing federal entities, states and tribes, that compared upriver stocks of salmon to downriver socks.

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More specifically, rather than provide a long manifesto of the theory behind lean startup, Udacity breaks down the process of launching a business into practical steps for systematically testing hypotheses and developing a business plan that will actually work.

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