If there is a plausible hypothesis for why a candidate might be stronger or weaker than his polls suggest, it may well be right to account for that.
Although there has been a lack of methods for global discovery of inversions, it has long been possible to test for the presence of inversions in a targeted manner if there is a prior hypothesis that a region may be inverted.
If there is a priori hypothesis, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) can employed in research reliably for testing the relationships of different variables with each other, though causality cannot be inferred unless it is an experimental study (Violato and Hecker 2007; Kline 2011).
The cell-graph methodology represents each cell with a vertex (node) and establishes a link between a pair of nodes if there is a biologically sound hypothesis that the pair communicates with each other through chemical signals, ECM etc.
In a secondary hypothesis, if there is a link between display and decoding rules, as discussed above, we would expect that the process of decoding would compensate for any distortions introduced by display rules.
The reduction of base pairs between a proto-tRNA and a proto-mRNA also counters the DRT hypothesis, if there is a significant reduction, why do amino acids apparently still bind to anticodons?
We based the work reported here on the hypothesis that, if there is a pheromone sufficiently diverged between M. m. domesticus and M. m. musculus to mediate subspecies recognition, then that process must also require a specific receptor(s), also sufficiently diverged between the subspecies, to receive the signal and elicit an assortative mating response.
A hypothesis is "rejected" only if there is a better alternative.
Our hypothesis was that if there is a quality of care issue at weekends, then compared with patients whose procedure occurs at the beginning of the working week, we would expect to see higher mortality in those who have procedures carried out at the weekend (where selection bias might also be contributing).
This hypothesis will be rejected if there is a 33% difference in the outcomes with the two methods.
