How is a hypothesis useful?
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A hypothesis requires more work by the researcher in order to either confirm or disprove it. ... Any useful hypothesis will enable predictions by reasoning (including deductive reasoning). It might predict the outcome of an experiment in a laboratory setting or the observation of a phenomenon in nature.
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Because it is a starting point for investigation .... it advances a proposition..
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And an important property of an hypothesis is that it be TESTABLE, i.e. falsifiable. That is there exists a series of experiments whose outcomes would definitively confirm or deny the proposed hypothesis.
The better experiments are designed to test a simple proposition...do the data support this proposition? If YES the proposition, the hypothesis, may continue to be tested in other experiments. If NO, then the hypothesis is rejected, and it is back to the drawing board....