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A hypothesis is an attempt to explain a phenomenon, based on partial information. Developing a hypothesis is finding a method for testing it: identifying something which is more likely to happen if the hypothesis were true and not if it were not. The next part of developing it is to design an experiment which can be used to test these outcomes.
to be useful in sciences a hypothesis must be
HYPOTHESIS: a hypothesis is what you think will happen. You should try starting it off with my hypothesis is... next it will.... then it will... finally it will...
A fundamental requirement of science is that is should be possible to make predictions based the theories which should be testable. That is, it should be possible to develop a good hypothesis which could be used to distinguish between the theory being false or acceptable.
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.