Original practice · Optional exercise · Observation before explanation
Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.
- Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A workshop has fewer questions than the organiser expected.
- Ask participants what made asking easy or difficult rather than guessing.
- Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
- Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.
Try a question
Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?