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noun
Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
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"Until now," he said on the first day of rehearsals, "everything we've done is hypothesis.
"Gone in a stroke was the intellectually barren 'it just is' hypothesis," he wrote in an essay.
Though this is hypothesis, big institutions do wield political clout, and this is a potential drawback of size.
The result is hypothesis generation.
In the latter, the information is structure-centric whereas in SOHN it is hypothesis centric.
That is, Hypothesis 7: the coefficients of employment status on subjective well-being may become insignificant after controlling for work hours.
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How? Sehgal explains that his strategy is "Hypothesis-driven".
This implication is hypothesis-generating and would need to be validated in a larger cohort of patients.
Not all research is hypothesis-driven, but a hypothesis helps focus a proposal and avoids the appearance of a fishing expedition.
"Most good research is hypothesis-driven," writes Barrett in an online grant-writing guide she put together for researchers at her university.
We've learned that basic research is hypothesis-driven and discovery-focused.
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