BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A hypothesis is a
A
Law
B
Canon
C
postulate
D
supposition
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A supposition is a guess or a hypothesis. Your supposition that your kids will automatically wash their hands before dinner is probably false. You’d best remind them to do it or risk dirty hands at dinner.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypothesis Definition "A hypothesis is a logical supposition, a reasonable guess, an educated conjecture.

Detailed explanation-3: -A hypothesis is a tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts and can be tested by further investigation. A hypothesis is a logical supposition, a reasonable guess, and an educated conjecture. It provides a tentative explanation for a phenomenon under investigation (Leedy and Ormrod, 2001).

Detailed explanation-4: -Supposition comes from latin “suppositio” which means “to place beneath. “Assumption is from “assumptio” which means “taking up.” This indicates that the word “assumption” is a more powerful, emotional, word. If I “assume” something, this means that I have “taken it up” and am in complete agreement with the postulate.

Detailed explanation-5: -Outside science, a theory or guess can also be called a hypothesis. A hypothesis is something more than a wild guess but less than a well-established theory. In science, a hypothesis needs to go through a lot of testing before it gets labeled a theory. In the non-scientific world, the word is used a lot more loosely.

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