EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: 1. It is true that even when your research does not support your hypothesis, the hypothesis has value.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formulating a New Hypothesis If the initial hypothesis is not supported, you can go back to the drawing board and hypothesize a new answer to the question and a new way to test it. If your hypothesis is supported, you might think of ways to refine your hypothesis and test those.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are three possible judgments you can make: the data support the hypothesis; the data do not support the hypothesis; or. the data generally support the hypothesis but with certain exceptions (tell what those exceptions are).

Detailed explanation-4: -In science, a hypothesis is an educated guess that can be tested with observations and falsified if it really is false. You cannot prove conclusively that most hypotheses are true because it’s generally impossible to examine all possible cases for exceptions that would disprove them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many basic statistics books warn that hypotheses must be formed a priori and can not be changed after data collection otherwise the methodology becomes invalid.