Sentences with phrase «called null hypothesis»

No Steve, it is called the null hypothesis and is part of the very foundation of the scientific method.

It is called the null hypothesis.

It's called the null hypothesis.

The only reasonable conclusion - call it a null hypothesis - is that heat is no longer accumulating in the climate system and there is no longer a radiative imbalance caused by anthropogenic forcing.

Not exact matches

He analyzed Bem's data using a different system, called Bayesian statistics, which compares how well data might fit both the null and the alternate hypothesis.

Don't call it the «null hypothesis» — that's just a misuse of terminology.

To declare erroneously that the null hypothesis is not correct is called a type I error, and the science is very conservative in this regard about making such an error.

- Finally I'd address the duplicity (if I may call it that) in Trenberths statement: «Given that global warming is «unequivocal», to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence.

A null hypothesis can not exist in the absence of its alternative — that's why it's called «alternative», and not «optional».

Scientists will still debate the question for many years no matter which hypothesis you choose to call «null», but politically we must either act or not act - both choices have pricely consequences if we were to choose wrong.

How has this process been followed for AGW or, more specifically, for the premise that the observed warming since the modern record started has been caused principally by AGW and that this represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment (let's call this the «dangerous AGW» hypothesis or dAGW, which Trenberth would like to see as the «null hypothesis»)?

Ignoring all arguments and data brought forth so far, then pointing at the null hypothesis and calling it a day is called skepticism these days?

Science provides a lovely concept called the «null hypothesis» which serves quite well as the alternate theory in all cases.

Basically when we reject the null hypothesis we risk what is called a type 1 error.