It is recognized as hypothesis, in the process of scientific research, to the idea that arises and is proposed to be verified through experimentation. The hypothesis is one of the first moments of the creative process of the scientist, but it is also the most important: it is the axis on which the research process is directed, and therefore without it it would be impossible consegrate a good investigator.
Of course, correct experimentation is also essential to obtain good results, but those who do not have the knowledge (and experience, fundamental for this matter) to make good hypotheses, I'm hardly a distinguished scientist.
Characteristics of the hypothesis
- The epistemology of science has agreed that all hypotheses are links between two elements: A and B. It could be a pair of units, or a unit and a group. The hypothesis establishes a possible relationship between these two elements, or something that happens to one from something that happens to the other.
- The relationship given by the hypothesis must meet the condition of being plausible, so that the sequence of experiments cannot produce a relationship that is not actually true. The hypothesis will be true to the extent that it is fulfilled, and it will be scientific knowledge if it can be generalized for all times and places, making explicit the assumptions or the conditions of application.
Steps for the correct presentation of a hypothesiss
- Define the topic in detail.
- Develop an investigative question.
- Polish the question in order to limit all subjective claims.
- Access a first reading in sufficient detail to fully formulate the hypothesis.
- Write it, in such a way as to have the scope of the hypothesis determined.
Also known as hypothesis to any kind of guess, regardless of whether the verification is of an investigative and experimental nature or is simply an idea, whose certain ignorance is due to the impossibility of knowing due to any circumstance: any proposal that is made on the basis of a situation of which there are no certainties, it is considered a hypothetical statement.
Thus, the following list will include twenty examples of hypotheses. The first ten will be hypotheses of a scientific nature, while the second will be common conjectures that are raised as hypotheses.
- Tobacco use in the early teenage years is four times more harmful than in adulthood.
- The societies with less social conflict are at the same time the societies with the greatest tendency to suicide and depression.
- Today's automobiles use 20% more energy than they did twenty years ago.
- As the altitude increases, the ambient temperature decreases.
- Aluminum has a melting temperature of 660 ° C.
- Any autotrophic nutrition process will also have photosynthesis.
- The sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
- The most stable political systems are those with the toughest and most rigid rulers.
- A reduction in subsidies will generate an economic contraction of 4%.
- A body totally or partially submerged in a static fluid will be pushed with a force equal to the weight of the volume of fluid displaced by said object.
- My hypothesis is that he is cheating on me with his theater teacher.
- A lot of guitar players are good, but I don't think anyone plays as fast as he did.
- When the level of social unrest increases, your advertisements will no longer work.
- If I put in a lot of effort, I will be able to buy a new car.
- Due to the rain, we probably won't sell many tickets at today's dance.
- We believe that you are insolvent, so we cannot lend you more money.
- The prosecution believes that the cook poisoned the ex-wife, applying a destructive solution to her afternoon tea.
- The train is not passing anymore, it will surely not happen until the next political campaign.
- I suspect you only come to visit me when you need something.
- I have not seen my cat for months, my hypothesis is that she has been lost in the neighborhood.
