The real test of the metapopulation hypothesis came in the second part of the experiment.

ECONOMIST: Road kill

To prove the importance of the JAK pathway, someone needed to discover a compound to test the hypothesis that inhibiting the JAK enzyme was of value in treating disease.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Human evolution

To test her hypothesis about the detrimental effects of power on advice-taking, See and her colleagues conducted four different pieces of research.

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It is hard to imagine the hypothesis test that frames the mob behavior of the market.

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They vote with their test tubes, and they have put their test tubes into a huge number of experiments over this amyloid hypothesis.

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Researchers performed eight studies to test the hypothesis that people with higher trust in their feelings will predict outcomes of future events better than those who second-guess their feelings.

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In essence, I believe this was not a failure of the drug or the mechanism but a failure of us as investigators to make sure we had sufficient disease in our population upon which to test our hypothesis--somewhat akin to trying to show one antibiotic is better than another or even a placebo, but selecting a population with no infection!

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