Thursday, November 15, 2012

Chapter 12, Question 3


An interesting topic that I chose to write about was evaluating the scientific hypothesis. The relevance to the problem under study means to see how the phenomenon relates to real world issues or how it relates to what it is trying to explain. Also, all of the relevant observations and facts need to be weeded out versus having unrelated facts and observations that do not support the validity of the phenomenon. There needs to be consistency with well-established theories. That means that if there is a theory already in place, your observations and conclusions, should be used to help support the ideas of the other theory. The next things are that the hypothesis should be simple, testable, and falsifiable. Finally, a good hypothesis can be used to predict similar events. 

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