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What's the point of a hypothesis?
Replies: 12 — Last Post Mar. 13 2:25pm by norock
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What's the point of a hypothesis? All I can see it doing is giving the scientist an ego boost when he's right, and reason to manipulate data when he's wrong....

EDIT: This isn't meant to be, "LOL UR STUPID Y WUD U DO DAT," it's a serious question.

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lol i never thought about it that way

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You just want to know if you actually got what you expected.  I mean, why does anyone make any assertion about the future?  To have something to aim for.

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That's a good point to bring up to my Physics teacher.

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Quote: from BrokenBelief at 12:17 am on Mar. 13, 2008
You just want to know if you actually got what you expected.  I mean, why does anyone make any assertion about the future?  To have something to aim for.

But does aiming encourage corruption to the scientific method? If you say, "I hypothesize that reading gives you a larger vocabulary," and the results show that it doesn't, I'd not only be wrong (*gasp!* And everyone is completely indifferent to being wrong), but it would go against the public opinion. Thus, there is pressure to manipulate the results.

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I agree, i remember in elementary schools in math, if you didnt put a hypothosis, you got docked marks

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I guess i never looked at them that why. i NEVER THINK THE ARE RIGHT.
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Quote: from Spasty at 9:20 pm on Mar. 12, 2008
Quote: from BrokenBelief at 12:17 am on Mar. 13, 2008
You just want to know if you actually got what you expected.  I mean, why does anyone make any assertion about the future?  To have something to aim for.

But does aiming encourage corruption to the scientific method? If you say, "I hypothesize that reading gives you a larger vocabulary," and the results show that it doesn't, I'd not only be wrong (*gasp!* And everyone is completely indifferent to being wrong), but it would go against the public opinion. Thus, there is pressure to manipulate the results.

That's a flaw in the scientist, not the method.  =D

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Quote: from BrokenBelief at 12:25 am on Mar. 13, 2008
Quote: from Spasty at 9:20 pm on Mar. 12, 2008
Quote: from BrokenBelief at 12:17 am on Mar. 13, 2008
You just want to know if you actually got what you expected.  I mean, why does anyone make any assertion about the future?  To have something to aim for.
 

 But does aiming encourage corruption to the scientific method? If you say, "I hypothesize that reading gives you a larger vocabulary," and the results show that it doesn't, I'd not only be wrong (*gasp!* And everyone is completely indifferent to being wrong), but it would go against the public opinion. Thus, there is pressure to manipulate the results.

That's a flaw in the scientist, not the method.  =D

It is, but it encourages bringing the flaw out of the scientist.

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A hypothesis is to be tested. In true sceintific circles, with the peer review process in effect, that doesnt happen.

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Your thinking too much.

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Quote: from Spiffyguy at 12:30 am on Mar. 13, 2008
Your thinking too much.

Last I checked, that was a good thing.

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1) Hypotheses are forms of documentation, half the time, the greatest discoveries contradict the hypotheses. there is no need for skewing data because it would not only be found out, but it would also be useless without substance.

2) science is used not to prove things right, but to rule wrong things out; in an attempt to find out the right. [for the things that matter anyway]

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