"Ratio- nal" means what it says: a proportioning of the hypothesis to the grounds for advancing it, a ratio between the degree of credibility and the strength of the evidence.
The hypothesis to be tested is this: do the patterns of behaviour they themselves show when under deadline pressure in busy academic lives bear relation to those displayed by those billions of people in the world struggling to survive on minimal resources?
Taking the hypothesis to its extreme, if this country elected enough BNP MPs to form a government, they could not go rounding up black citizens and putting us on boats to Africa – or wherever it is the BNP thinks we belong.
The American mathematician J. Barkley Rosser, who also contributed to number theory and applied mathematics, weakened the hypothesis to mere consistency in 1936, at the expense of complicating somewhat the initial sentence (2).
The above estimate proves the hypothesis to be true.
The hypothesis to be tested is that CSR is a function of managerial foreign experience.
The hypothesis to be tested was if boxers had a reduced olfactory function.
The main thing is to generate experiments that examine the necessary conditions for the hypothesis to remain viable.
The analysis of the results confirmed that the hypothesis to use Kohonen networks for separation of the classes was correct.
A crucial element in clinical trial design is the pre-specification of the hypothesis to be tested in quantitative terms.
The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal in a document.
