I also consider which pieces fit with my pre-existing hypotheses and research questions.
Interestingly, the studies in this issue both support pre-existing hypotheses, and in other ways challenge those hypotheses.
A tendency was noticeable to echo or agree with pre-existing hypotheses unless the evidence presented was above average.
The continual process of adapting the interview schedule will be critical, as the aim is not validation of pre-existing hypotheses, but identification of emergent issues in order to generate new understandings.
On the other hand the attribution of explicit but also broad criteria (1: author supporting or acknowledging the discussed hypotheses, 2: author refuting the presented hypothesis) might have led to an overestimation of consistency because of a tendency of authors to echo pre-existing hypotheses".
Hence, shared underlying patterning mechanisms and pre-existing hypotheses of modularity allow us to predict that the posterior displacement of the dorsal and anal fins in the elongate 'ambush predator' body type will be accomplished by the preferential addition of abdominal vertebrae.
A classic grounded theory study does not produce data based on a pre-existing theory, but generates hypotheses for a new theory based on a thorough and systematic analysis of a large amount of data, both empirical and interpreted, quantitative as well as qualitative.
The pre-existing bias hypothesis relies on an explicit phylogenetic hypothesis and can therefore be tested [ 3, 21].
Experimental measurements of ring crack radii for well-polished LSGM cannot be explained within the framework of the pre-existing crack hypothesis.
The pre-existing bias hypothesis [ 18, 19] was proposed to explain best the evolution of the sword [ 7, 8].
To have a representative sample of the statements (the Q-sample) in the concourse, an inductive process was used in the absence of a pre-existing theoretical hypothesis or framework.
