A hypothesis is useful only if it can be tested, is based on prior knowledge or imaginative guesses, must be falsifiable

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Cesar Hicks

Biology

4 July, 00:02

A hypothesis is useful only if it can be tested, is based on prior knowledge or imaginative guesses, must be falsifiable

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A hypothesis may arise from prior knowledge, logical inferences, or imaginative guesses. A hypothesis is useful only if it can be tested, usually by an experiment. A hypothesis must be falsifiable. This means you must be able to demonstrate that it is false if it is untrue.