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What is contradicting evidence?

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When reality repeatedly contradicts your schema the schema needs updating.

When reality repeatedly contradicts your schema the schema needs updating.

Example: A product manager notices three separate user complaints about the same "edge case" in one week. Rather than patching each individually, she recognizes the pattern as a signal that her mental model of user behavior is wrong — the edge case is actually the main case for a segment she had not modeled.

This concept is part of Schema Evolution in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for schema evolution.

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