路径依赖是指给定条件下人们的决策选择受制于其过去的决策，即使过去的境况可能已经过时。

「应用场景」

简单来说，实验组里的创业者接受训练，要像科学家一样思考和行动。这个有架构的方法，协助他们在找寻或分析市场讯号时，能减少偏误。它降低事情被误判为正向（错误地接受坏构想）或负向（拒绝好构想）的可能性。最终，在我们的研究中，科学化思考的创始人避免了“路径依赖”的问题，这种问题是指在流程初期的一个错误行动，持续对后续决定造成影响。

In short, entrepreneurs in the treatment group were trained to think and act like scientists. This structured approach helped them better mitigate their biases when they searched for and analyzed market signals. It reduced the likelihood of false positives (bad ideas being mistakenly accepted) and false negatives (good ideas getting rejected). Ultimately, scientific-minded founders in our study averted path dependence, whereby a wrong move early in the process has an enduring impact on decisions downstream.