Sentences with phrase «to experiment»

The classic Marshmallow Experiment of 1972 involved placing a marshmallow in front of a young child, with the promise of a second marshmallow if he or she could refrain from eating the squishy blob while a researcher stepped out of the room for 15 minutes.

Sites like The Guardian have experimented with messages that try to educate readers about how much advertising supports the financial health and well - being of the site they are visiting, and suggest donating or signing up for a subscription.

One of the easiest ways to utilize feedback is to focus on «The Lean Startup» approach (read more about it here), but it involves three basic pillars: prototyping, experimenting and pivoting.

Don't be afraid to experiment; you won't figure out your audience right away, but if you try different things and then monitor your data and evaluate the comments, likes, etc., that will help you determine what your audience appreciates — and wants to see more of.

Alibaba is already collecting and analyzing shopping data to experiment with new retail concepts far more advanced than those in the West.

Under Armour isn't the only sports brand that is experimenting with U.S. - made processes.

The course helps founders think of their companies as a series of experiments aimed at locating the sweet spot where enabling technology meets a receptive market.

The founders of Emerald Therapeutics, D.J. Kleinbaum and Brian Frezza, think it comes down to the difficulty of running experiments in the life sciences.

So I started experimenting with monologues to camera, which were interrupted with sketch cutaways where I would act out all of the parts.

In one experiment, the study's authors asked 75 adults to remember a time when they either bragged, or had to listen to someone else's bragging.

In one experiment, participants started out by completing the HEXACO personality assessment, which measures Honesty - Humility, among other traits.

Since the days of Nikola Tesla, scientists have experimented with transmitting electricity through the air.

Indeed, during the experiment, subjects ages 75 to 89 who also exhibited some signs of memory impairment were more likely than younger people to click on a suspicious email that would leave their personal data vulnerable to criminals.

Despite the current problems that plague the country, he said, Schultz still has confidence in the American experiment.

The sixth floor features Etsy Labs, a place where employees can use craft supplies and experiment with new ideas.

Why on earth would I do the experimenting on my own nickel when, for a collection of relatively inexpensive fees and conditions, I can purchase expertise from the recognized world authority on sub sandwiches, the Subway organization?

He's already sold a niche site (howtostartablogonline.net), that was originally to experiment with his marketing skills.

It chronicles all the ups and downs of the slightly loony experiment.

Walker: Scientists have designed experiments and they've been able to demonstrate objectively that when people say that they're doing something in that dream that they actually are.

But perhaps the GitHub study has even more in common with an experiment conducted far outside the world of computer science.

In one startling experiment Wiseman asked both the lucky and unlucky to count the number of photographs in a newspaper.

At a time when airlines were beginning to experiment with baggage fees and were discussing mergers, raising ticket prices and generally making the flying experience miserable, JetBlue was different; passengers like me loved them for it.

Tips are available to help you rethink vacations as a benefit for your business in other ways as well, including as a laboratory for delegating, a way to examine priorities, and a chance to experiment with remote work tools if you need to connect while away.

It also works: After finishing the experiment, Sun decided that she wanted to keep using the notebook trick.

But experiment to find out which ones matter most to your well - being, and focus on those.

(Nobody actually studied during the experiment.)

Then the Whole Foods acquisition happened, and everyone kinda forgot about Amazon's little AI grocery store experiment.

You can only stay on top by learning new strategies and experimenting with new ideas.

Last December, Reuters reported that more than 20 bodies donated to an Arizona broker were used in U.S. Army blast experiments - without the consent of the deceased or next of kin.

This is where you can experiment.

Thanks to the high degree of automation, a team of two or three technicians can carry out up to 50 experiments simultaneously.

But now I see, when you add your own spin, they have tremendous value,» insists Blackman, who shares a list of 100 templates he relied on during his experiment via Airstory (actually getting to them requires a few clicks but is worth it.)

To address the discrepancies in the first experiment's methodology, the researchers conducted a second experiment where participants created a profile on a fake social media site.

You could examine the metrics you've gathered so far, conduct an experiment and measure how your experiment changed your results.

Family members learned of the 2012 and 2013 experiments not from the Army but from a Reuters reporter who obtained records about what happened.

«Companies have gotten very good at providing creature comforts to developers — they have candy, free lattes, free massages — but if you ask developers what they want, it's a quiet place to work, with a door that closes and more flexibility on getting to learn the technology and experiment.

Facebook's experiment with letting users downvote and upvote comments, Reddit - style, seems to be expanding.

You're looking at one, tiny piece of jeans giant Levi Strauss's (Change the World 2017 list, No. 11) ambitious experiment to improve the lives of the 25 million men and women in the world's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the process.

Stick with the tried - and - true until you have the bandwidth to experiment.

BuzzFeed Product Lab's first batch of commerce experiments are wide - ranging.

We don't even have to speculate about what this might look like, since the Washington Post was part of an earlier experiment called «Social Readers.»

For my costs, I'm factoring in only the extra parts I bought as part of my mining experiment, which include the three GTX 1060 graphics cards, a cheap processor, a cheap motherboard, and a power supply.

In many ways, Mitra's experiments simply reinforce what we already know (or suspect) about the necessary pre-conditions for innovation.

While working as the board's science consultant, Newnham studied the process scientists use to conduct experiments.

By performing this experiment you can better determine which tasks might be fine done in parallel and which are completed more effectively given singular focus.

We tried things as an experiment, and we do our best.

But some of the most chattered - about ideas — such as 20 percent time and mind puzzle interview questions — have come from experiments at search behemoth Google.

The more you experiment with taking risks, big and small, the easier it will be to find your sweet spot in the future.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

It also has a simpler genome and a shorter life - cycle, which cuts down the time it takes to do experiments.