According to the Scientific Method, when real-world facts contradict a postulated hypothesis, the hypothesis fails.
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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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Translation, if one were to start with a pre-trial null hypothesis probability of 50% (reflecting equipoise, an ethical prerequisite for randomizing patients), the post-trial null hypothesis probability would still be 9%, which is not sufficient to change my practice.
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?
In specific reply to your assertion the author of this piece did not offer any evidence refuting the LNT hypothesis, I disagree, he specifically cited factual, observed experience of no increased cancer risk in areas where normal and persistent background radiation levels are well above levels the LNT hypothesis would assert must have statistically significant higher cancer risk.
In addition, results presented last year for our monoclonal antibody solanezumab support the amyloid hypothesis.
When I posed the alternative hypothesis of that day to Amy, she hurried off the phone.
The Scientific Method requires testing a proposed scientific hypothesis before accepting it as the truth.
All three of these books offer fascinating accounts of the story surrounding the Riemann hypothesis.
The fame of the Riemann hypothesis has grown steadily over the past 150 years.
But is a questionable hypothesis sufficient cause for a federal investigation of a federal scientist?
Like a physical experiment, every entrepreneurial venture embodies and tests a hypothesis about products or markets.
It is hard to imagine the hypothesis test that frames the mob behavior of the market.
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The stronger form of the hypothesis is that software will eat every industry eventually.
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If you think this is an outlandish hypothesis, you don't know your computer history.
He cites the hygiene hypothesis as one that is widely supported by the medical profession.
The market is smarter than I am, always my working hypothesis for better or worse.
The possibility of a Greek default on March 20 lends further credibility to their hypothesis.
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If the Sustainability Holism Hypothesis holds true in the long run, what can we expect?
All dose limits are presently determined by using the Linear No-Threshold dose hypothesis (LNT).
"It confirmed our hypothesis that the wing-waving behaviour is functioning male aggressive communication, " said Dr Anderson.
My working hypothesis can't be disproved or proved for the next couple of years.
Mentions Walter Alvarez and the Alvarez hypothesis, which wreaked havoc with the uniformitarian idea of extinction.
"As water invariably draws away more body heat, this result supports the thermoregulation hypothesis, " says Anderson.
The Cochran Hypothesis states that all high-prevalence, adult-onset diseases must be caused by pathogens.
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The real test of the metapopulation hypothesis came in the second part of the experiment.
The hypothesis is that this behaviour marks the moment the beetle takes its bearings.
Though Einstein's quantum hypothesis eventually became accepted, it had consequences that not even he had foreseen.
Do you then conclude, as would any sane person, that your hypothesis is not valid?
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