{"id":203,"date":"2016-11-29T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2019-01-23T07:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:39:06","slug":"merchants-should-be-using-the-scientific-method-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/merchants-should-be-using-the-scientific-method-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchants Should Be Using The Scientific Method for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone with a modicum of exposure to the startup world has undoubtedly\u00a0heard phrases like <em>lean startup<\/em>,\u00a0<em>agile<\/em>, or <em>fail fast<\/em>. Hype and marketing aside, these are simply euphemisms for the scientific method, something all of surely learned in grade school.<\/p><p>As a fresh reminder, here's what the scientific method is:<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone with a modicum of exposure to the startup world has undoubtedly\u00a0heard phrases like lean startup,\u00a0agile, or fail fast. Hype and marketing aside, these are simply euphemisms for the scientific method, something all of surely learned in grade school.As a fresh reminder, here&#8217;s what the scientific method is:Subscribe or log in to read the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-3h","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/a1.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}