Contrasting hypotheses or options

Write down two or three rival answers to the uncertainty before you probe, stated so a result can favor one over the others. Without named rivals, whatever you observe confirms whatever you already believed, and the probe teaches you nothing.

Write down two or three rival answers to the uncertainty before you probe, stated so a result can favor one over the others. Without named rivals, whatever you observe confirms whatever you already believed, and the probe teaches you nothing.

Example

For the knee: (A) volume drives swelling, so light weight at high reps flares it; (B) peak load drives it, so heavy triples at low volume flare it; (C) neither, and recovery days between sessions is the real variable. Your symptom log can separate these three.