Prediction from low birthweight to female adolescent depression:
A test of competing hypotheses
«Our analysis sets up
a test of competing hypotheses, and our preliminary results are consistent with expectations under hunting pressure.»
Not exact matches
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.
Neither
of these two
competing (or complementary)
hypotheses have passed this
test, as yet, although the underlying mechanisms for BOTH have been validated experimentally.
With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases
of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates
of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to
test the validity
of competing hypotheses.