FIT 100
© Copyright University of
Washington 1999-2000
Guidelines -- Assess Objectively
5. It frequently occurs that everything
checks out and is found to be OK … but the bug still persists
Don’t become so frustrated that
you stop thinking logically. Rather, evaluate your progress objectively:
how are you doing?
oAre you making a
wrong assumption?
oDo you misunderstand
what the data means?
oHave you made a
wrong deduction?
Remember … it’s a mystery and you are Jane Marple or Hercule Poirot
… using those “gray cells” you can find the culprit