{"id":2071,"date":"2021-03-18T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2021-03-19T06:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:53:41","slug":"dabbling-or-experimenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/dabbling-or-experimenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabbling Or Experimenting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Experiments in life and at work are great ways to learn and discover insights you don\u2019t have. However, for those insights to be meaningful, experiments require some rigor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether big or small, what are you experimenting with at the moment? Perhaps it\u2019s:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Not drinking coffee after 2pm<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Running<\/span><\/li>\n
  • An email newsletter<\/span><\/li>\n
  • A new format for team meetings<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Virtual community building<\/span><\/li>\n
  • A 4-day work week<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Having all your team members participate in customer calls<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Or something else?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    For whatever you are experimenting with, have you set a frame and defined measurable parameters?<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Why are you experimenting?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What\u2019s your hypothesis?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What\u2019s the process for the experiment?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • For how long are you running the experiment?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What does success and failure look like?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What are you measuring to evaluate how your experiment is going?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      It\u2019s unlikely that all your experiments need to adhere meticulously to the scientific method and require statistical significance. But, if you are looking to generate meaningful insights that help move you forward, your experiments do require a defined process for testing and analysis. <\/span><\/p>\n

      Otherwise you\u2019re just dabbling, not experimenting.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Are you dabbling or experimenting? Experiments require some rigor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,14,8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-design","category-facilitation","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dabbling-Or-Experimenting.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}