Karl Popper once praised the scientific testing of hypotheses, saying that, in this way, we allow our hypotheses to die instead of us.
The big bonobo picture might one day emerge, but it would happen only after the rigorous testing of hypotheses in the forest.
Yet if the field of psychology has taught us anything over the last century, it is that common sense, although a valuable wellspring for hypothesis generation, is woefully ill suited for the systematic testing of hypotheses.
As defined in Webster's, that is the "systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses".
But they understood that when spending the people's money and acting on behalf of the entire country, including that segment that did not vote for their president, their obligation to fact-based inquiry and rigorous testing of hypotheses was self-evident.
Anxious to achieve the status of economics and the other "soft sciences," the gatekeepers of sociology have insisted on a style of research and thinking that focuses on the testing of hypotheses based on data generated by measurements presumed to be valid.
Quantitative analysis methods for statistical testing of hypotheses and spatiotemporal movement regularities in insect motion trajectories .
Quantitative analysis methods for statistical testing of hypotheses and spatiotemporal movement regularities in insect motion trajectories.
Russell's philosophical method has at its core the making and testing of hypotheses through the weighing of evidence.
In the quantitative realm, testing of hypotheses is conducted and statistical analysis is the usual methodological foundation.
Among the activities often identified as characteristic of science are systematic observation and experimentation, inductive and deductive reasoning, and the formation and testing of hypotheses and theories.
