5/30/2008

What does “hypothesis” mean?

Hypothesis is a suggestion intended to explain certain facts or observations. Scientific hypothesis is a scientific idea about how something works, before the idea has been tested. Scientific hypothesis should include several properties such as testability, simplicity, scope - the apparent application of the hypothesis to multiple cases of phenomena, fruitfulness - the prospect that a hypothesis may explain further phenomena in the future, conservatism - the degree of "fit" with existing recognized knowledge-systems.

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