Like a physical experiment, every entrepreneurial venture embodies and tests a hypothesis about products or markets.
This confirms a hypothesis from the Hubble Space Telescope, which detected signs of ozone around that Moon.
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In science, falsifiability means that a hypothesis is presented with sufficient rigor to be proven wrong, that is, falsified.
So when you have a hypothesis about your consumers, who should you turn to and what can you gain?
It snowballed into an idea and a hypothesis and then an entry into 'So You Want To Be a Scientist?
One of the hazards of earning a PhD is that afterward, everything you encounter becomes a hypothesis to be tested.
It was merely a hypothesis, but it did suggest a programme of research that could be conducted to test the hypothesis.
People will use social to inform a hypothesis or confirm a hypothesis.
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Venturing forth in pursuit of learning, even without a hypothesis, can open you up to new information and help you discover nonobvious needs.
In the end, these results can't be good for Merck, even though, as de Lemos points out, the inflammation idea is still just a hypothesis.
The idea was to create a lifelike subject with controllable wings, as part of research testing a hypothesis about male displays of aggression in the species.
About five years ago they developed a hypothesis, based on data from experimental animals, that bowel cancer might be prevented by a regular dose of aspirin.
But for entrepreneurs, it begins by forming a hypothesis about a Monetizable Pain, calling up customers, and talking to them about the pain you are trying to solve.
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This transformation from a hypothesis-driven to a data-driven mode has revolutionized other disciplines, such as biology, and may now allow us to systematically improve the quality of education.
After developing a hypothesis on which customer segment a product is focused on, a team can use a technique like contextual design to look at behavior patterns and latent needs.
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The GMC hearing was told that Dr Wakefield, along with colleagues, developed a hypothesis linking MMR and autism and decided to conduct clinical studies to establish the "validity" of it.
But the best science books are those that most clearly adhere to scientific principles themselves: they present a hypothesis, examine the data, and leave readers to conclude what they will.
Validating a hypothesis around whether or not a customer will find any value in your product, and iterating until you find the right product-market fit, is an approach that should extend well beyond the product development stage.
We always start off with a hypothesis.
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In viewing our universe by way of models, we can build a hypothesis as a picture, visual data organizing itself more easily than word-based modeling (either as sound or text), and visualization lends itself to extremely large models.
What is it, then, when a scientist formulates a hypothesis that growth patterns follow temperature, and tests the hypothesis against data only to find that growth patterns do not follow temperature at all for 30% of the data and only partially for the rest?
So clapping and singing nursery rhymes with babies and toddlers may not only be what many parents do naturally but might also protect children against the effects of dyslexia further down the road a hypothesis it is hard to imagine having developed without the insights that came from peering directly into children's brains.
But is a questionable hypothesis sufficient cause for a federal investigation of a federal scientist?
"There is a probable hypothesis that in the event that Obama becomes president that you could have a galvanization of these white supremacist groups, " said John Karl, the officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's criminal conspiracy unit.
According to the Scientific Method, when real-world facts contradict a postulated hypothesis, the hypothesis fails.
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In a popular book called Rare Earth, paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee laid out a pessimistic hypothesis.
You are right, the Milankovitch forcing argument is ONLY A NULL HYPOTHESIS. I hope I haven't argued anything more than that.
That stress, and stress alone, is responsible for damaging the working memories of poor children thus looks like a strong hypothesis.
That Windows 8 is less bloated than Windows 7 is a good hypothesis, but I am afraid, that is not the reason.
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