The phrase "affirmative hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to research, science, or discussions where a positive or confirming assumption is being proposed or tested.
Example: "The study was based on the affirmative hypothesis that increased exercise leads to improved mental health outcomes."
Alternatives: "positive hypothesis" or "confirmatory hypothesis".
According to the mismatch hypothesis, affirmative action in admissions actually results in worse outcomes for minority students as students admitted under affirmative action are attending colleges where the curriculum is designed for students with significantly stronger credentials2.
The central contribution, however, of this paper is that it reveals the weakness in the so-called "mismatch hypothesis" underlying affirmative action.
Here, we report an affirmative test of this hypothesis in a population-based cohort and an independent, external validation cohort of patients, all of whom received first-line tamoxifen therapy as a sole systemic adjuvant.
Nevertheless, large cardinal principles have manage to settle restricted versions of the continuum hypothesis (in the affirmative).
Rather than searching through all the relevant evidence, they phrase questions to receive an affirmative answer that supports their hypothesis.
The mismatch hypothesis asserts that, under affirmative action, minority students are more likely to be matched to higher quality colleges for which they are less well-prepared than their non-minority counterparts.
There's also the "mismatch hypothesis," which states that affirmative action in higher education occasionally places students in academic situations with the odds stacked against them, setting them up for failure.
Among the various insights I provide is quantifying both sides of the mismatch hypothesis: when can we hope that affirmative action is indeed beneficial to society?
The mismatch hypothesis posits that a policy regime of affirmative action in college/university admissions increases the likelihood that a minority student is matched to a school that does not optimize her chances for success (Arcidiacono et al. 2011).
In this sense, then, China is a good test for the mismatch hypothesis as well as the view that affirmative action reduces investment in human capital and reduces relative earnings of minorities.
