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Q: What must you do before you make a hypothesis?
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What must always happen before a hypothesis can be formed?

a reveiw of what is known about the subject must occur


What does preliminary hypothesis mean?

Preliminary hypothesis is an educated guess made before any experiment is done. A hypothesis is an unproven theory or statement.


How are data and hypothesis different?

A hypothesis comes before data. A hypothesis is an estimated guess to what will happen. And Data is the steps it takes to come to a solution in a problem.


What happens if a hypothesis is tested and shown to be false?

We do not make a clear separation between "proven true" and "proven false" in hypothesis testing. Hypothesis testing in statistical analysis is used to help to make conclusions based on collected data. We always have two hypothesis and must chose between them. The first step is to decide on the null and alternative hypothesis. We also must provide an alpha value, also called a level of significance. Our null hypothesis, or status quo hypothesis is what we might conclude without any data. For example, we believe that Coke and Pepsi tastes the same. Then we do a survey, and many more people prefer Pepsi. So our alternative hypothesis is people prefer Pepsi over Coke. But our sample size is very small, so we are concerned about being wrong. From our data and level of significance, we find that we can not reject the null hypothesis, so we must conclude that Coke and Pepsi taste the same. The options in hypothesis testing are: Null hypothesis rejected, so we accept the alternative or Null hypothesis not rejected, so we accept the null hypothesis. In the taste test, we could always do a larger survey to see if the results change. Please see related links.


What are the three parts to a hypothesis?

The three parts of a hypothesis are to identify the problem, make an educated guess and identify the major variables. A hypothesis is the description of a scientific question.

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