No. In fact, in statistics, an hypothesis is a statement whose truth is to be tested. In science, an hypothesis is a way of summarising a body of information that is capable of being shown to be false.
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It is the hypothesis that is presumed true until statistical evidence in the form of a hypothesis test proves it is not true.
Rejecting a true null hypothesis.
If a hypothesis has been tested many times (using approved experimental methods), and each test has proven the hypothesis to be true, the hypothesis can be taken to be a fact, or truth.
When we've proven that the hypothesis is false !
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