Williams (2008b, c) reports that many prospective science teachers had misconceptions about key terms relating to the nature of science—"fact," "law," "theory," "hypothesis".
A change in P-wave velocity was interpreted using the dilatancy theory (hypothesis) that rocks underwent dilatation in the last stage before failure (Nur, 1972; Scholz et al., 1973).
Analysis is iterative and circular between theory, hypothesis and data [ 19].
The MML criterion provides an information theoretic objective for problems of inference where the goal is to find the best explanation (or theory, hypothesis, model) for a set of observed data (Wallace and Boulton, 1968).
Instead of theories, hypotheses and grand arguments, we get instant 140-character tweets about eating a sandwich or watching a TV show.
But the story did fill my inbox with commiserating remarks from my fellow female performers, amateur gender-theory hypotheses from dude friends and thought-provoking questions from HuffPost commenters.
This can be further subdivided in four sub-factors: In sciences that are younger and/or address phenomena of higher complexity, the connection between theories, hypotheses and empirical findings could be more flexible, negotiable and open to interpretation.
In addition, contrary to existing relapse-theory hypotheses, neither negative affective reactions to lapse and feelings of guilt nor decreases in self-efficacy predicted progression from a lapse to a relapse.
