This approach to validation of a measure is used in the absence of a gold standard (where one would be able to establish 'criterion validity') and refers to predictions based on hypotheses.
It is all based on hypotheses and gossip".
The report notes some criticsims are based on "hypotheses that harm could occur under certain scenarios", notably the risk that plant genes could effect genes in animal organs.
This report focused on hypotheses derived from a computer model of the interaction of various global socioeconomic trends; it projected a Malthusian vision in which the collapse of world order would result if population growth, industrial expansion, and increased pollution, combined with insufficient food production and the depletion of natural resources, were to continue at current rates.
Based on hypotheses from theoretical contributions, we review two rather distinct technology fields.
Indeed, Du Châtelet's work on hypothesis forms the foundations for the entry on hypotheses in Diderot's Encyclopédie of 1765.
See Keiko Kawashima for her evaluation of Du Châtelet's conceptual relationship with her close contemporaries on hypotheses.
Another CFI program will fund grants exploring possible CFS mechanisms based on hypotheses to be determined by scientific advisors.
Du Châtelet's chapter on hypotheses captures many aspects of Robert Boyle's account of good and excellent hypotheses.
Such explanations would provide mechanistic accounts of population processes processes that depend on hypotheses about symbolic cultural relationships.
Rather than focusing on hypotheses, testing and inference, synthetic biology invites attention to the practices of exploration, iterativity and kludging.
