The Importance of Hypothesis Statements

"It's usually not possible or very difficult to assess the validity of the entire hypothesis statement as it's originally written," he says. "What are some of the biggest assumptions that are baked into our thinking? If we get those wrong, this whole thing fails." He adds: "Then the question becomes, okay, we're making the assumption that... Let me give you another example because I was going to try to build off of the example I don't know anything about"