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Hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hypothesis (from Greek ; plural hypotheses ) is a proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon. The term derives from the Greek, ὑποτιθέναι - hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to su...
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Teaching Strategies for Hypotheses ... Some years ago, I found a nice short lesson on hypotheses that really allows the student to get a handle on this process skill. The book was Patterns and Processes by the BSCS group who wrote this edition for middle school'ers.
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Writing Hypotheses: a student lesson ... When Are Hypotheses Used? ... How Are Hypotheses Written?
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Medical Hypotheses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medical Hypotheses is a medical journal published by Elsevier that is intended to provide a forum for unconventional ideas without the traditional filter of scientific peer review. According to the...
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Not all studies have hypotheses. Sometimes a study is designed to be exploratory (see inductive research). There is no formal hypothesis, and perhaps the purpose of the study is to explore some area more thoroughly in order to develop some specific hypothesis or prediction that can be tested in future research.
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"Hypotheses are single tentative guesses--good hunches--assumed for use in devising theory or planning experiment, intended to be given a direct experimental test when possible." (Eric M. Rogers, "Physics for the Inquiring Mind." (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1966)
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What do scientists do? Scientists test hypotheses. ... What is a hypothesis? It is a guess about why something is the way it is. It might be right, but most hypotheses are not. ... It is the ability to carefully try to reject hypotheses using data until the best hypothesis or hypotheses are left standing.
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A theory is an explanation of a set of related observations or events based upon proven hypotheses and verified multiple times by detached groups of researchers. One scientist cannot create a theory; he can only create a hypothesis.
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When a hypothesis involves multiple explanatory variables, do hypotheses have to be written for each variable? ... In this case there would by hypotheses about the effect (or lack thereof, in the case of the null hypothesis) of type of teaching, hypotheses about the effect of disability, and another hypothesis about...
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