Sentences with phrase «competing hypotheses which»

So you are saying essentially that, in order to disprove a theory, one should come up with competing hypotheses which should then be proven?

One searches in vain for signs that Wallis is aware of the multiple, competing hypotheses which have emerged in the past decade concerning the continued stagnation of the less - developed countries (LDCs).

Not exact matches

Thus, the first step that NuSI - funded researchers will take is to test the competing hypotheses on weight loss, which can happen relatively quickly.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

This was an experiment which aimed to test the hypothesis that cloud seeding with silver iodide could suppress hail by creating an excess of nucleating embryos that would compete for the available cloud water (and thus keep all the hydrometeors smaller)-- more precipitation, in fewer big «globs» of hail.

Where competing hypotheses are being considered, someone from the other side is better suited to appraising your methodology, provided they review with integrity (which would be the norm).

There may, in the study of any phenomenon, be one, or a multitude of competing (by which I take it you mean logically mutually exclusive) hypotheses, but each will, and must, be attended by its null.

Now google «theory of climate» and you get a hodge - podge of hits none of which are climate theories but which are in fact competing hypotheses of climate change.

To the scientist, there are no such things as a scientific «truths»; there are only competing hypotheses with which we have more or less confidence.

This is reinforced by your view of a competing hypothesis, which would have to offer explanation for what's happening now and project a different future, perhaps one where we breathe a sigh of relief...