There is not enough information in the link. Maybe there was something wrong (health-wise) in the timeout room? I'm sure the teacher would've let her out if she was about to puke.Famiking
[QUOTE="drewtwo99"]The main reason I bring this up is because I'm a physics teacher (or soon to be anyway, doing my student teaching now) and I hate it when people say that hypotheses are just guesses. They are an explanation for an observation based on something that is already known to be true. foxhound_fox
"Known" isn't the word I'd use there. "Appears" is far more appropriate. Because until research and testing has been done to verify the claim, it cannot be "known true." I think he was talking about the elements that are the cause of an event.
[QUOTE="JabbaDaHutt30"][QUOTE="drewtwo99"]I'm not sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but I read something that wasn't quite right on the first page. Hypothesis is NOT scientific jargon for a guess, educated guess, or anything like that. In science, an hypothesis is a reasoned explanation for a single observation, which may or may not yet be substantiated by evidence. Wikipedia says, "A hypothesis (from Greek ὑπόθεσις) consists either of a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena." It is NOT a guess. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about science, right next to a misunderstanding of what the word theory means. A scientific theory is an explanation for any number of scientific laws or relationships, backed up by extensive observation and experimentation. Both are falsifiable. drewtwo99
It's pretty much a guess. Wrong. Read further why an educated guess is NOT a scientific hypothesis: In the United States of America, teachers of science in primary schools have often simplified the meaning of the term "hypothesis" by describing a hypothesis as "an educated guess". The failure to emphasize the explanatory or predictive quality of scientific hypotheses omits the concept's most important and characteristic feature: the purpose of hypotheses. People generate hypotheses as early attempts to explain patterns observed in nature or to predict the outcomes of experiments. For example, in science, one could correctly call the following statement a hypothesis: identical twins can have different personalities because the environment influences personality. In contrast, although one might have informed one's self about the qualifications of various political candidates, making an educated guess about the outcome of an election would qualify as a scientific hypothesis only if the guess includes an underpinning generic explanation. It's pretty much an early educated guess that is sometimes backed up by evidence.
[QUOTE="drewtwo99"]I'm not sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but I read something that wasn't quite right on the first page. Hypothesis is NOT scientific jargon for a guess, educated guess, or anything like that. In science, an hypothesis is a reasoned explanation for a single observation, which may or may not yet be substantiated by evidence. Wikipedia says, "A hypothesis (from Greek ὑπόθεσις) consists either of a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena." It is NOT a guess. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about science, right next to a misunderstanding of what the word theory means. A scientific theory is an explanation for any number of scientific laws or relationships, backed up by extensive observation and experimentation. Both are falsifiable. It's pretty much a guess.
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