The authors hypothesize that "[c]onsumers seem to believe that closing off debt accounts, regardless of balance size, is important in motivating them to persist in the goal of eliminating their debts", which implies that an individual may have a higher probability of repaying loans by focusing on the size of the debts rather than that of the interest rates.
They write:Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with childrearing, and assuming that children are normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in real estate prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility.
Many scholars hypothesize the existence of a powerful aristocratic class, and craftsmen, merchants, and seamen would have formed a middle class; it was probably at this time that the Etruscans began to maintain the elegant slaves for which they were famous.
Some scientists hypothesize that such volcanic activity may strengthen and extend the negative phase of the NAO, thus bringing on cooler conditions in northern Europe.
In other words, psychologists hypothesize both whether certain behaviours will covary and whether the clusters of covarying behaviours (i.e., constructs) tend to covary in meaningful ways with other constructs.
This conclusion led some forensic investigators to hypothesize that Whitman's tumour may have been pushed against the amygdala regions of his brain, which influence fight-flight responses.
Some scientists hypothesize the existence of a third type of mature T cell called regulatory T cells.
Although little is known about the habits of the Barbados threadsnake, some scientists hypothesize that its small size combined with its fossorial (burrowing) lifestyle probably compels it to feed on insect larvae, especially those of ants and termites, found in the soil.
What causes these dramatic population explosions is unknown; however, authorities hypothesize that the periodic input of high-nutrient loads from land sources and removal of species that prey on adult starfish may be responsible.
To address this question, scientists must hypothesize evolutionary antecedent behaviours in ancestral species and attempt to reconstruct the sequence of events over evolutionary time that led from the origin of the trait to the one observed today.
Dietz's discovery in 1952 of the first fracture zone in the Pacific, which he related to deformation of the Earth's crust, led him to hypothesize that new crustal material is formed at oceanic ridges and spreads outward at a rate of several centimetres per year.
