However, the tests do not constitute independent hypotheses.
Indeed, in classical first-order logic, the exceptions of the rules that constitute a hypothesis accumulate and classifying an example in two different classes, even if one is the right one, is not correct.
It may be excellent advice to a budding anthropologist to be aware of linguistic diversity, and to be on the lookout for ways in which your language may affect your judgment of other cultures; but such advice does not constitute a hypothesis.
Rather than invoking truth or falsity, we should consider whether a research programme – the hard core of hypotheses that constitute a theory – is progressing or degenerating.
Implicitly, this constitutes a hypothesis-based WoE where the hypothesis is the existence of a certain hazard profile.
The "thrifty gene" and "thrifty phenotype" hypotheses constitute the dominant paradigm for over four decades.
As discussed before, these results indicate that the predictions indeed possess biological validity and constitute good biological hypotheses to guide the design of experimental setups for secondary screens.
While we agree that neutral hypotheses constitute an appropriate null model, we do find many patterns at odds with neutrality, from the most modest 4-base pair overlaps in operons, through to variation in phase preference in long overlapping sequences.
In order to better prepare medical students for a meaningful career in medicine, the University of Utah School of Medicine requires each medical student to complete a scholarly activity – constituting a hypothesis based research project.
Each particular combination of constraints constituted a hypothesis.
The concept of allostery and the way it controls physiological activities can be broadened to include diluted/dynamized compounds, and may constitute a working hypothesis for the study of molecular mechanisms underlying the inversion of drug effects.
