100013 Lecture 2: Research hypothesis

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 100013
• Professor: Lee Shepherd

Document Summary

Topic 2 - research hypothesis (1) hypothesis are often created after someone has simply made an observation: but an experiment must be, repeatable, observable, testable. Formulating the research hypothesis verbally is a good way to ensure its validity. Statements can be: synthetic (true/ false) good, analytic (always true) not good, contradictory (always false) not good, a synthetic statement therefore allows the research hypothesis to be expressed in the "general implication form" Falsifiability is a characteristic of such a statement (2) hypotheses, and resulting experiments, are often "thought of" after reading about previous research in the field: the object is the improve the original research. Induction: taking particular examples and creating a general, theoretical statement, the conclusion contains more information than has been determined from observation, particular -> general, deduction, to test a hypothesis, general -> particular. Types of theories: descriptive theories, name or describe events, e. g.