A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A scientific hypothesis must be based on observations and make a testable and...

The simulation hypothesis proposes that what one experiences as the real world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which...

the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF); the Whorf–Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. The hypothesis is disputed...

half? More unsolved problems in mathematics In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at...

The interdimensional UFO hypothesis (IUH) is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions"...

The Love Hypothesis is a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published September 14, 2021 by Berkley Books. Originally published online in 2018 as Head Over...

In mathematics, the cobordism hypothesis, due to John C. Baez and James Dolan, concerns the classification of extended topological quantum field theories...

The null hypothesis (often denoted H 0 {\textstyle H_{0}} ) is the claim in scientific research that the effect being studied does not exist. The null...

The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment which assesses the ability of modern science to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps...

The dark forest hypothesis is the idea that extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in abundance across the universe, but remain silent and hidden out...

The Love Hypothesis is an upcoming American romantic comedy film adapted from the novel of the same name by Ali Hazelwood. It is directed by Claire Scanlon...

The interface hypothesis in adult second language acquisition is an attempt to explain non-target-like linguistic behavior that persists even among highly...

input hypothesis, the acquisition–learning hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis and the affective filter hypothesis. The input...

A working hypothesis is a hypothesis that is provisionally accepted as a basis for further ongoing research in the hope that a tenable theory will be produced...

psychology, the lexical hypothesis (also known as the fundamental lexical hypothesis, lexical approach, or sedimentation hypothesis) generally includes two...

two large clades dubbed Amorphea (similar in composition to the unikont hypothesis) and the Diphoda (formerly bikonts), which includes plants and most algal...

The Gaia hypothesis (/ˈɡaɪ.ə/), also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their...

The Red Queen hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order...

mathematics, specifically set theory, the continuum hypothesis (abbreviated CH) is a hypothesis about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states:...

The 2R hypothesis or Ohno's hypothesis, first proposed by Susumu Ohno in 1970, is a hypothesis that the genomes of the early vertebrate lineage underwent...

The Kenite hypothesis, or Midianite–Kenite hypothesis, is a hypothesis about the origins of the cult of Yahweh. As a form of Biblical source criticism...

The second continuum hypothesis, also called Luzin's hypothesis or Luzin's second continuum hypothesis, is the hypothesis that 2 ℵ 0 = 2 ℵ 1 {\displaystyle...

Prout's hypothesis was an early 19th-century attempt to explain the existence of the various chemical elements through a hypothesis regarding the internal...

acquiring knowledge through careful observation, rigorous skepticism, hypothesis testing, and experimental validation. Developed from ancient and medieval...

Kindling hypothesis is the argument that some neurological and psychiatric conditions worsen due to repeated episodes of symptoms that cause neurological...

The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs are evidence of a hidden, Earth-based, technologically advanced civilization...

The zoo hypothesis speculates on the assumed behavior and existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from...

The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model and Terminator theory is the proposal that unidentified...

The biophilia hypothesis (also called BET) suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life. Edward...

Ortega hypothesis holds that average or mediocre scientists contribute substantially to the advancement of science. According to this hypothesis, scientific...

The aestivation hypothesis is a hypothesized solution to the Fermi paradox conceived in 2017 by Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong and Milan M. Ćirković...

The Berserker hypothesis, also known as the deadly probes scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe...

The Farrer hypothesis (also called the L/M hypothesis, the Farrer–Goulder hypothesis and the Farrer–Goulder–Goodacre hypothesis) is a possible solution...

The noticing hypothesis is a theory within second-language acquisition that a learner cannot continue advancing their language abilities or grasp linguistic...

planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the proto-Earth around 4.50 billion years ago, with some...

In mathematics, Schinzel's hypothesis H is one of the most famous open problems in the topic of number theory. It is a very broad generalization of widely...

The lead–crime hypothesis proposes that the sharp decline in crime rates in the industrialised world in the 1990s and beyond, after decades of increased...

statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular hypothesis. A...

Look up hypothesis or hypothetical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. Hypothesis may also refer...

statistical hypothesis testing, the alternative hypothesis is one of the propositions in the hypothesis test. In general the goal of hypothesis test is to...

Panspermia – Hypothesis on the interstellar spreading of primordial life Quiet and loud aliens – Concept in astrobiology Rare Earth hypothesis – Hypothesis that...

In computational complexity theory, the exponential time hypothesis or ETH is an unproven computational hardness assumption that was formulated by Impagliazzo...

The Shiva hypothesis, also known as coherent catastrophism, is the idea that global natural catastrophes on Earth, such as extinction events, happen at...

The vulnerable world hypothesis or the "black ball" hypothesis is the idea that there could be technologies that destroy civilization by default, unless...

The North European hypothesis is a linguistic and archaeological theory that tries to explain the spread of the Indo-European languages in Europe and parts...

In economics, the life-cycle hypothesis (LCH) is a model that strives to explain the consumption patterns of individuals. Elderly dissaving is also influenced...

The Snowball Earth is a geohistorical hypothesis proposing that during one or more of Earth's icehouse climates, the planet's surface was nearly entirely...

The variability hypothesis, also known as the greater male variability hypothesis, is the hypothesis that human males generally display greater variability...

The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Theia Impact, is an astrogeology hypothesis for the formation of the Moon first proposed in 1946 by Canadian...

The two-streams hypothesis is a model of the neural processing of vision as well as hearing. The hypothesis, given its initial characterisation in papers...

The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European...

In cosmology, the past hypothesis is a fundamental law of physics that postulates that the universe started in a low-entropy state, in accordance with...

The Omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the...

The manifold hypothesis posits that many high-dimensional data sets that occur in the real world actually lie along low-dimensional latent manifolds inside...

The matching hypothesis (also known as the matching phenomenon) argues that people are more likely to form and succeed in a committed relationship with...

Arline Geronimus wrote about the weathering hypothesis the early 1990s to account for health disparities of newborn babies and birth mothers due to decades...

The substitution hypothesis or twin hypothesis states that the sightings of a risen Jesus are explained not by physical resurrection, but by the existence...

The savannah hypothesis (or savanna hypothesis) is a hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved as a direct result of human ancestors' transition from an...

Brett's hypothesis also known as the heat-invariant hypothesis or Brett's heat-invariant hypothesis proposes that upper thermal tolerance limits are less...

The Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important conjectures in mathematics. It is a statement about the zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Various...

In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects...

relative income hypothesis was developed by James Duesenberry in 1949. It consists of two separate consumption hypothesis. The first hypothesis states that...

The documentary hypothesis (DH) is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the...

The Anatolian hypothesis, also known as the Anatolian theory or the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in...

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information. A direct...

mathematics, the grand Riemann hypothesis is a generalisation of both the Riemann hypothesis and the generalized Riemann hypothesis. It states that the non-trivial...

In psycholinguistics, the interaction hypothesis is a theory of second-language acquisition which states that the development of language proficiency is...

The Bott Hypothesis is a thesis first advanced in Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Networks (1957), one of the most influential works published in the...

The Portia Hypothesis claims women with masculine-sounding names will be more successful in the legal profession than an otherwise identical counterpart...

In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually...

The trifunctional hypothesis is a theory that prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society and religion reflected a tripartite ideology ("idéologie tripartite")...

fragmentary hypothesis may refer to: The fragmentary hypothesis of the Pentateuch as an alternative to the documentary hypothesis or supplementary hypothesis Multi-source...

using "the mirroring hypothesis" as an equivalent term for Conway's law, found "strong evidence to support the mirroring hypothesis", and that the "product...

In physics and cosmology, the mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH), also known as the ultimate ensemble theory, is a speculative "theory of everything"...

The aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH), also referred to as aquatic ape theory (AAT) or the waterside hypothesis of human evolution, postulates that the ancestors...

leaking out. This possibility, sometimes called the "Poleaxe Hypothesis" or the "Knockout Hypothesis", is now considered unlikely. A 1994 Learning Channel documentary...

and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power, one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions, and that this is not meant to be...

The sexy son hypothesis in evolutionary biology and sexual selection, proposed by Patrick J. Weatherhead and Raleigh J. Robertson of Queen's University...

In number theory, the Chinese hypothesis is a disproven conjecture stating that an integer n is prime if and only if it satisfies the condition that 2...

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) is a widely refuted fringe hypothesis for the cause of the sudden influx of freshwater into the ocean which...

The two layer hypothesis, or two layer model, argues that Eastern and Southeastern Asia was initially occupied by hunter-gatherer groups considered to...

The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly...

In psycholinguistics and leadership studies, the babble hypothesis (demonstratively labelled the babble effect) is a conjecture that posits a strong correlation...

Däniken's works, although it also received limited consideration as a serious hypothesis. Critics emerged throughout the 1970s, discrediting Von Däniken's claims...

The two-hit hypothesis, also known as the Knudson hypothesis, is the hypothesis that most tumor suppressor genes require both alleles to be inactivated...

The expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates (whose graphical representation is known as the yield curve) is the proposition that...

Mount Hypothesis (Bulgarian: връх Хипотеза, romanized: vrah Hipoteza, IPA: [ˈvrɤx xipoˈtɛzɐ]) is the mountain rising to 1094 m on Nordenskjöld Coast in...

The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction...

The lexicalist hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Noam Chomsky in which he claims that syntactic transformations only can operate on syntactic constituents...

The Black Queen hypothesis (BQH) is a reductive evolution theory which seeks to explain how natural selection (as opposed to genetic drift) can drive gene...

The swoon hypothesis is any of a number of ideas that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus, proposing that Jesus did not die on the cross, but merely...

legitimate scholarly arguments for both the Insular Celtic hypothesis and the P-/Q-Celtic hypothesis. Proponents of each schema dispute the accuracy and usefulness...

synaptotropic hypothesis, also called the synaptotrophic hypothesis, is a neurobiological hypothesis of neuronal growth and synapse formation. The hypothesis was...

The endurance running hypothesis is a series of conjectures which presume humans evolved anatomical and physiological adaptations to run long distances...

In linguistics, the innateness hypothesis, also known as the nativist hypothesis, holds that humans are born with at least some knowledge of linguistic...

In molecular biology, the sequence hypothesis was first formally proposed in the review "On Protein Synthesis" by Francis Crick in 1958. It states that...

The gathering hypothesis is a term in evolutionary psychology coined in 1970s feminism as the antithesis of "hunting hypothesis", suggesting that gathering...

Hilberg's hypothesis (also known as Hilberg's law) is a conjecture in quantitative linguistics or a statistical law in information theory. It states that...

The demonic UFO hypothesis is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of a satanic influence, or are themselves demons...

In psychology and other social sciences, the contact hypothesis suggests that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions can effectively reduce prejudice...

The Davis–Moore hypothesis, sometimes referred to as the Davis–Moore theory, is a central claim within the structural functionalist paradigm of sociological...

The Wiseman hypothesis, sometimes called the tablet theory, is a theory of the authorship and composition of the Book of Genesis which suggests that Moses...

In paleoanthropology, the hunting hypothesis is the hypothesis that human evolution was primarily influenced by the activity of hunting for relatively...

The Linder hypothesis is an economics conjecture about international trade patterns: The more similar the demand structures of countries, the more they...

The Hydrogen hypothesis is a model proposed by William F. Martin and Miklós Müller in 1998 that describes a possible way in which the mitochondrion arose...

The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory which states that the prices of financial assets, particularly those in the stock market, follow a random...

The neural efficiency hypothesis proposes that while performing a cognitive task, individuals with higher intelligence levels exhibit lower brain activation...

The hue-heat hypothesis is the hypothesis that an environment with warm colors (red, orange yellow hues) will feel warmer in terms of temperature and comfort...

The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin...

In criminal justice, the liberation hypothesis proposes that extra-legal factors (such as race of offender and pretrial publicity) affect sentencing outcomes...

impossible and that no scientific hypothesis is by itself capable of making predictions, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires background assumptions...

In physics and thermodynamics, the ergodic hypothesis says that, over long periods of time, the time spent by a system in some region of the phase space...

The term weak continuum hypothesis can be used to refer to the hypothesis that 2 ℵ 0 < 2 ℵ 1 {\displaystyle 2^{\aleph _{0}}<2^{\aleph _{1}}} , which is...

Grothendieck's homotopy hypothesis states, homotopy-theoretically speaking, that the ∞-groupoids are spaces. One version of the hypothesis was claimed to be...

The two-source hypothesis (or 2SH) is an explanation for the synoptic problem, the pattern of similarities and differences between the three Gospels of...

The firstborn hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox which states that no extraterrestrial intelligent life has been discovered because...

The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for a hypothesis that contests the Gaian hypothesis and proposes that multicellular...

The imagined contact hypothesis is an extension of the contact hypothesis, a theoretical proposition centred on the psychology of prejudice and prejudice...

named after the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang theory, that tried to account for the fact...

The critical period hypothesis is a hypothesis within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can achieve native-like...

statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were...

The heterotroph hypothesis, also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis, is a hypothesis for the origin of life that theorises that early life depended...

(from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (sperma) 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by cosmic dust,...

In biblical studies, the supplementary hypothesis proposes that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) was derived from a series of direct...

A highly controversial hypothesis holds that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from a laboratory. The scientific...

The extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis or extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), synonymous with interplanetary aircraft and alien UFO technologies, proposes...

The threshold hypothesis is a hypothesis concerning second language acquisition set forth in a study by Jim Cummins (1976), which states that a minimum...

markedly from host chicks in size and appearance. One explanation, the mafia hypothesis, proposes that parasitic adults retaliate by destroying host nests where...

The Old Friends hypothesis is the hypothesis that the human commensal microbiome has been substantially altered or reduced in humans living modern lifestyles...

The two-gospel hypothesis or Griesbach hypothesis is that the Gospel of Matthew was written before the Gospel of Luke, and that both were written earlier...

The portal hypothesis describes a possible mechanism for some of the health effects of obesity, particularly the metabolic syndrome. It says that obesity...

The frustration–aggression hypothesis, also known as the frustration–aggression–displacement theory, is a theory of aggression proposed by John Dollard...

The old-age-security hypothesis is an economic hypothesis according to which parents view their children as a source of income and personal services in...

adaptive market hypothesis, as proposed by Andrew Lo is an attempt to reconcile economic theories based on the efficient market hypothesis (which implies...

The Easterlin hypothesis (Easterlin 1961, 1969, 1973) states that the positive relationship between income and fertility is dependent on relative income...

The imprinted brain hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary psychology regarding the causes of autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum disorders...

The pressure flow hypothesis, also known as the mass flow hypothesis, is the best-supported theory to explain the movement of sap through the phloem of...

The comparator hypothesis is a psychological model of associative learning and performance. To understand the model, it helps to consider how associative...

Vicarious Hypothesis, or hypothesis vicaria, was a planetary hypothesis proposed by Johannes Kepler to describe the motion of Mars. The hypothesis adopted...

The expected utility hypothesis is a foundational assumption in mathematical economics concerning decision making under uncertainty. It postulates that...

The age-area hypothesis is a concept in cultural anthropology that cultural traits tend to expand outward from their origin with time. Thus, the larger...

Science and Hypothesis (French: La Science et l'Hypothèse) is a book by French mathematician Henri Poincaré, first published in 1902. Aimed at a non-specialist...

In ornithology, the mafia hypothesis is an explanation of why nesting host species do not reject the eggs of brood parasites. The parasite eggs are accepted...

In medicine, the terminal drop hypothesis is a hypothesis that a sharp reduction in cognitive capacity in older people is often correlated with impending...

According to the Porter hypothesis, strict environmental regulations can induce efficiency and encourage innovations that help improve commercial competitiveness...

Drift hypothesis, concerning the relationship between mental illness and social class, is the argument that illness causes one to have a downward shift...

In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before...

The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European...

The Warburg hypothesis (/ˈvɑːrbʊərɡ/, [ˈvaːɐ̯bʊʁk]), sometimes known as the Warburg theory of cancer, postulates that the driver of carcinogenesis (cancer...

The ambush hypothesis is a hypothesis in the field of molecular genetics that suggests that the prevalence of “hidden” or off-frame stop codons in DNA...

The acid-ash hypothesis is a medical hypothesis which suggests that excessively acidic diets may result in a number of identifiable health effects, including...

Glacial Maximum, some 125 meters (410 ft) lower than in present times. The hypothesis is controversial, with other authors arguing for a more gradual inundation...

basically divided between a European hypothesis, which posited a migration from Europe to Asia, and an Asian hypothesis, which posited that the migration...

The thrifty gene hypothesis is an attempt by geneticist James V. Neel to explain why certain populations and subpopulations in the modern day are prone...

The hunter versus farmer hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the nature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It was first suggested...

The virus world hypothesis (also called the virus-first hypothesis, the virus early hypothesis or the co-evolution hypothesis) proposes that self-replicating...

evolutionary theory, the court jester hypothesis contrasts the Red Queen hypothesis. The term "Court Jester hypothesis" was coined by Anthony Barnosky in...

The Fowkes hypothesis (after F. M. Fowkes) is a first order approximation for surface energy. It states the surface energy is the sum of each component's...

law (sometimes referred to as Avogadro's hypothesis or Avogadro's principle) or Avogadro-Ampère's hypothesis is an experimental gas law relating the volume...

primate hypothesis is that megabats, a subgroup of Chiroptera (also known as flying foxes), form an evolutionary sister group of primates. The hypothesis began...

Spearman's hypothesis is a conjecture that has played a historical role in debates surrounding race and intelligence. Its original formulation was that...

Peter Wason, as "a preference for information that is consistent with a hypothesis rather than information which opposes it." Confirmation biases are effects...

Serotonin hypothesis may refer to: Serotonin hypothesis of depression (see Biology of depression#Monoamines) Serotonin hypothesis of OCD (see Obsessive–compulsive...

In mathematics, the Lindelöf hypothesis is a conjecture by Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf about the rate of growth of the Riemann zeta function...

The four-document hypothesis or four-source hypothesis is an explanation for the relationship between the three Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. It...

"The Recombination Hypothesis" is the 13th episode of the fifth season, as well as the 100th episode overall, of the American television sitcom The Big...

which starts a scientific hypothesis. For it is not sufficient that a hypothesis should be a justifiable one. Any hypothesis which explains the facts is...

Hypothesis Theory is a psychological theory of learning developed during the 1960s and 1970s. This theory played an important role in early research on...

In science and philosophy, an ad hoc hypothesis is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified. For example, a person that...

model. A hypothesis is proposed for the statistical relationship between the two data sets, an alternative to an idealized null hypothesis of no relationship...

real people." He wrote the novel over three years. The "odd-man hypothesis" is a hypothesis that states that unmarried men are better able to execute the...

The space animal hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers and other UFOs might be the result of animal lifeforms ("space critters") that are...

According to the cardiocentric hypothesis, the heart is the primary location of human emotions, cognition, and awareness. This notion may be traced back...

Dopamine hypothesis may refer to: Dopamine hypothesis of bipolar disorder (see Bipolar_disorder#Proposed_mechanisms) Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia...

The catecholaldehyde hypothesis is a scientific theory positing that neurotoxic aldehyde metabolites of the catecholamine neurotransmitters dopamine and...

The Vasconic substrate hypothesis is a proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages...

corresponds to rejecting the null hypothesis, and a negative result corresponds to not rejecting the null hypothesis. The terms are often used interchangeably...

inconsistencies between the current available data and the prehistoric overkill hypothesis. For instance, there are ambiguities around the timing of Australian megafauna...

The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean...

The Goidelic substrate hypothesis refers to the hypothesized language or languages spoken in Ireland before the arrival of the Goidelic languages. Ireland...

It is used to test the null hypothesis that data come from a normally distributed population, when the null hypothesis does not specify which normal...

The challenge hypothesis outlines the dynamic relationship between testosterone and aggression in mating contexts. It proposes that testosterone promotes...

The Dutch hypothesis provides one of several biologically plausible explanations for the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),...

The GNC hypothesis or GNC-SNS primeval genetic code hypothesis refers to a hypothesis about the origin of genes. It suggests the universal genetic code...

families of northern Eurasia, first proposed in 1903. Though the Nostratic hypothesis once had a measure of support among mainstream linguists, it is now generally...

In null-hypothesis significance testing, the p-value is the probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the result actually observed,...

A chi-squared test (also chi-square or χ2 test) is a statistical hypothesis test used in the analysis of contingency tables when the sample sizes are large...

Source hypothesis can refer to: Documentary hypothesis, for the Pentateuch of the Hebrew Bible Two-source hypothesis, for the Synoptic Gospels of the...

argument is intended to refute a position Searle calls the strong AI hypothesis: "The appropriately programmed computer with the right inputs and outputs...

The knowledge gap hypothesis is a mass communication theory created by Philip J. Tichenor, George A. Donohue, and Clarice. N Olien in 1970. The theory...

limiting gauge theory, the N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory. This hypothesis, which is called the AdS/CFT correspondence, was further developed by...

"Uralic" referred to the Ural Mountains. While the Ural-Altaic family hypothesis can still be found in some encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general...

The Red King hypothesis contrasts with the Red Queen hypothesis, where mutualistic and cooperative interactions favor the fitness of a set of individuals...

In genetics, the partial dominance hypothesis states that inbreeding depression is the result of the frequency increase of homozygous deleterious recessive...

A largely abandoned historical hypothesis postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from converts to Judaism among...

In its ancient usage, a hypothesis is a summary of the plot of a classical drama. These hypotheses were often copied as a preface to the text of the surviving...

The genes-first hypothesis, also known as the replication-first hypothesis, is one of the competing theories in the study of the origin of life. This theory...

civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent...

which are not mutually exclusive, were developed: Dominance hypothesis. The dominance hypothesis attributes the superiority of hybrids to the suppression...

The male warrior hypothesis (MWH) is an evolutionary psychology hypothesis by Professor Mark van Vugt which argues that human psychology has been shaped...

The Q+/Papias hypothesis (Q+/PapH), advanced by Dennis R. MacDonald, offers an alternative solution to the synoptic problem. MacDonald prefers to call...

The Sekhmet Hypothesis was first published in book form in 1995 by Iain Spence. It suggested that pop trends of an atavistic nature could be analysed in...

Hypothesis is a studio album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, unofficially released in 1978. In May 1971 Vangelis had played several sessions...

The timing hypothesis, gap hypothesis, gap theory, or critical window hypothesis for menopausal hormone therapy is a scientific theory that the benefits...

The activation-synthesis hypothesis, proposed by Harvard University psychiatrists John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, is a neurobiological theory of...

published in 1982 was taken as evidence for recent African origin (a hypothesis which at the time was competing with Asian origin of H. sapiens). By 1985...

the two-source hypothesis, scholarly interest in the Hebrew gospel hypothesis dwindled. Modern variants of the Hebrew gospel hypothesis survive, but have...

Lissauer to have once existed between Mars and the asteroid belt. In their hypothesis, the Late Heavy Bombardment of the Hadean eon began after perturbations...

non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities on Earth was...

likely developed in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago, with one hypothesis arguing that diverse morphological features of H. sapiens appeared locally...

E-trus-ci. As for the original meaning of the root, *Turs-, a widely cited hypothesis is that it, like the Latin turris, it means 'tower' and comes from the...

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

The Augustinian hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Augustinian Proposal) is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the...

The Inner–Outer hypothesis of the subclassification of the Indo-Aryan language family argues for a division of the family into two groups, an Inner core...

lactate shuttle hypothesis describes the movement of lactate intracellularly (within a cell) and intercellularly (between cells). The hypothesis is based on...

discovered by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1859. In 1900, Max Planck proposed the hypothesis that energy is radiated and absorbed in discrete "quanta" (or energy packets)...

The eocyte hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposes that the eukaryotes originated from a group of prokaryotes called eocytes (later classified as Thermoproteota...

The lipid hypothesis (also known as the cholesterol hypothesis) is a medical theory postulating a link between blood cholesterol levels and the occurrence...

Hypothesis Z (Romanian: Ipoteza Z), sometimes known as Plan Z (Romanian: Planul Z), was the name of Romania's first war plan for World War I. It was based...

a wave diffraction model, see Bragg's Law. The key feature of Duane's hypothesis is that a simple quantum rule based on the lattice structure alone determines...

psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six. This hypothesis was...

The permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is a model in the field of economics to explain the formation of consumption patterns. It suggests consumption patterns...

before the evolution of DNA and proteins. The term also refers to the hypothesis that posits the existence of this stage. Alexander Rich first proposed...

The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. It theorises that his tomb was found empty not because...

more definitive and quantitative analysis than James Croll's earlier hypothesis that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to...

The green world hypothesis proposes that predators are the primary regulators of ecosystems: they are the reason the world is 'green', by regulating the...

continues to be debated. Two-domain system Neomura Bacterial phyla Eocyte hypothesis Taxonomy Two-empire system Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML (June 1990)...

The Sphinx water erosion hypothesis is a fringe claim, contending that the Great Sphinx of Giza and its enclosing walls show erosion consistent with precipitation...

The information centre hypothesis (ICH) is a theory that states bird species live in communal roosts primarily for the advantage of gaining information...

discoveries of objects including 2017 OF201 and 2023 KQ14 have challenged the hypothesis, as their orbits are not aligned with the other TNOs and would be unstable...

Seventh Hypothesis (French: La Septième Hypothèse) is a 1991 book by Paul Halter. In 2014, The Guardian's Adrian McKinty considered The Seventh Hypothesis the...

The core-satellite hypothesis is a theory in ecology that attempts to explain the pattern of species distributions seen in nature. According to the theory...

The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known to be abundant in the universe,...

Balkan hypothesis may refer to: A theory in the history of the Romanian language (Rösler theory); see Origin of Romanians#Migration from the south A theory...

The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia or the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis is a model that attributes the positive symptoms of schizophrenia to a...

In economics, the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis (also called the Prebisch–Singer thesis) argues that the price of primary commodities declines relative to...

The Matthean Posteriority hypothesis, also known as the Wilke hypothesis after Christian Gottlob Wilke, is a proposed solution to the synoptic problem...

In archaeology, the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis is a prediction about the relationship between a society's funerary practices and its social organization...

The Purple Earth hypothesis (PEH) is an astrobiological hypothesis, first proposed by molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007, that the earliest...

Bold hypothesis (or bold conjecture, the terms are used interchangeably) is a concept originally created by the liberal philosopher Karl Popper when he...

Critics of the hypothesis argue that cooking with controlled fire was insufficient to start the increasing brain size trend. The cooking hypothesis gains support...

results: either the null hypothesis is rejected (which however does not prove that the null hypothesis is false), or the null hypothesis cannot be rejected...

intelligence or social brain hypothesis describes the capacity of animals to manoeuvre in complex social groups. This hypothesis posits that the challenges...

mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) hypothesis, the cancer stem cell hypothesis, and the macrophage–cancer cell fusion hybrid hypothesis. Some new hypotheses were...

The CLAW hypothesis proposes a negative feedback loop that operates between ocean ecosystems and the Earth's climate. The hypothesis specifically proposes...

The Marley hypothesis is a psychological theory on how racial groups may have different perceptions of the current racism in society due to a difference...

category theory and algebraic topology, the Baez–Dolan stabilization hypothesis, proposed in (Baez & Dolan 1995), states that suspension of a weak n-category...

The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well...

The neuronal recycling hypothesis was proposed by Stanislas Dehaene in the field of cognitive neuroscience in an attempt to explain the underlying neural...

The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim that AIDS is not caused by HIV, but instead that AIDS is caused by noninfectious factors such as recreational and...

acquisition is the comprehensible output hypothesis. Developed by Merrill Swain, the comprehensible output (CO) hypothesis states that learning takes place when...

(3) Juno by Karl Ludwig Harding and (4) Vesta by Olbers, buttressed his hypothesis. In 1823, German linguist and retired teacher Johann Gottlieb Radlof [de]...

science, the minimal effects hypothesis states that political campaigns only marginally persuade and convert voters. The hypothesis was formulated during early...

Bicameral mentality is a psychological hypothesis proposed by American psychologist Julian Jaynes. It suggests that early modern humans experienced thoughts...

The Teachability Hypothesis was produced by Manfred Pienemann. It was originally extracted from Pienemann's Processibility model. It proposes that learners...

Singularities that are not so hidden are called naked. The weak cosmic censorship hypothesis was conceived by Roger Penrose in 1969 and posits that no naked singularity...

The killer ape theory or killer ape hypothesis is the theory that war and interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution. It was...

The planetarium hypothesis, conceived in 2001 by Stephen Baxter, attempts to provide a solution to the Fermi paradox by holding that our astronomical observations...

"glow of warmth" felt in the presence of something familiar; however, his hypothesis was thrown out when results showed that the enhancement of preferences...

Hmong–Mien and even Japanese-Ryukyuan into the larger Austric hypothesis. While the Austric hypothesis remains contentious, there is genetic evidence that at...

two-empire system (with the empires Prokaryota and Eukaryota), and the eocyte hypothesis (with two domains of Bacteria and Archaea, with Eukarya included as a...

addition, scholars reject the notion—implicit in a black or white Egypt hypothesis—that ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin colour varied...

The hypothesis in the induction step, that the statement holds for a particular n, is called the induction hypothesis or inductive hypothesis. To prove...

The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man (commonly known as The Hunting Hypothesis) is a 1976 work of paleoanthropology...

deteriorations that amplify susceptibility to becoming infertile. This hypothesis suggests the reproductive lifespan in humans has been optimized, but it...

The acid-growth hypothesis is a theory that explains the expansion dynamics of cells and organs in plants. It was originally proposed by Achim Hager and...

The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis is a hypothesis in the field of biology that may be stated as follows: Since Lévy flights and walks can optimize search...

The slavery hypertension hypothesis proposes that disproportionately high rates of hypertension among black people in the New World are due to selective...

The Astonishing Hypothesis is a 1994 book by scientist Francis Crick about consciousness. Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the molecular structure of...

The Maximum neighbor hypothesis (hipótesis vecinal máxima in Spanish) or neighbor hypothesis 3 (hipótesis vecinal 3; HV3 in Spanish) is a strategic concept...

hormones on the developing fetus has been the most influential causal hypothesis of the development of sexual orientation. In simple terms, the developing...

Marcion Priority is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Marcion precedes all four canonical gospels in production or composition and was used a source for...

The Escalation Hypothesis is an evolutionary theory in biology put forward by Geerat J. Vermeij. It states that organisms are in constant conflict with...

In neuroscience, the critical brain hypothesis states that certain biological neuronal networks work near phase transitions. Experimental recordings from...

countries, most of Asia and parts of pre-Columbian America—contradict the hypothesis and it failed to gain the support of historians and archaeologists. Another...

The fetal origins hypothesis (FOH), also known as the Barker hypothesis or (in biomedical literature) the fetal origins of adult disease (FOAD), proposes...

In neuroscience, the chemoaffinity hypothesis states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[unreliable...

consistent with the "explosive" dope hypothesis. The TV show MythBusters explored the incendiary paint hypothesis. Their findings indicated that the aluminum...

bolide hypothesis is a hypothesis presented by Austrian palaeontologist Edith Kristan-Tollmann and geologist Alexander Tollmann in 1994. The hypothesis postulates...

The facial feedback hypothesis, rooted in the conjectures of Charles Darwin and William James, is that one's facial expression directly affects their emotional...

was part of popular pseudoscience and no longer a scientifically viable hypothesis. The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as a premise...

The Weyl curvature hypothesis, which arises in the application of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to physical cosmology, was introduced...

The terminal investment hypothesis is the idea in life history theory that as an organism's residual reproductive value (or the total reproductive value...

his death, to test this hypothesis. His wishes were duly carried out, but no blue colouration was found, and Dalton's hypothesis was refuted. The shrivelled...

The calcichordate hypothesis, formulated by British Museum paleontologist Richard Jefferies, holds that each separate lineage of chordate (Cephalochordates...

The Azoic hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Abyssus theory) is a superseded scientific theory proposed by Edward Forbes in 1843, stating that the...

In biogeography, particularly phytogeography, the nunatak hypothesis about the origin of a biota in formerly glaciated areas is the idea that some or many...

The cephalocentric hypothesis, also called cephalocentrism, encephalocentrism or cerebrocentrism, is the doctrine that the brain is the seat of the mind...

The Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis, also known as the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothesis, was the first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory...

In macroeconomics, the twin deficits hypothesis or the twin deficits phenomenon, is the observation that, theoretically, there is a strong causal link...

galactic gravity plane working against the outer solar orbital plane (Shiva hypothesis), may be the cause of orbital perturbations of some outer Solar System...

The multiregional hypothesis, multiregional evolution (MRE), or polycentric hypothesis, is a scientific model that provides an alternative explanation...

The expensive tissue hypothesis (ETH) relates brain and gut size in evolution (specifically in human evolution). It suggests that in order for an organism...

The adaptor hypothesis is a theoretical scheme in molecular biology to explain how information encoded in the nucleic acid sequences of messenger RNA (mRNA)...

of the hypothesis is taken as a falsification of the hypothesis. A test outcome that could have, but does not run contrary to the hypothesis corroborates...

The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had...

grass hypothesis is an evolutionary hypothesis that explains the evolution of high-crowned teeth, particularly in New World mammals. The hypothesis is that...

In machine learning, the lottery ticket hypothesis is that artificial neural networks with random weights can contain a subnetwork which (entirely by chance)...

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In it, Haidt poses...

In linguistics, the unidirectionality hypothesis proposes that grammaticalisation works in a single direction. That is, pronouns and prepositions may fuse...

the Moon, but there are a number of variations on this giant-impact hypothesis, as well as alternative explanations, and research continues into how...

The Armenian hypothesis, also known as the Near Eastern model, is a theory of the Proto-Indo-European homeland, initially proposed by linguists Tamaz V...

The stoned ape theory is a controversial hypothesis first proposed by American ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna in his 1992 book Food of the Gods...

The tetranucleotide hypothesis of Phoebus Levene proposed that DNA was composed of repeating sequences of four nucleotides. It was very influential for...

The Beau Geste hypothesis in animal behaviour is the hypothesis that tries to explain why some avian species have such elaborate song repertoires for the...

outdated but historically prominent North European hypothesis, the Neolithic creolisation hypothesis, the Paleolithic continuity paradigm, the Arctic theory...

The Bowman–Heidenhain hypothesis is an early explanation of renal function and urinary secretion. The hypothesis states that the kidney is first and foremost...

unambiguous falsifications of a scientific hypothesis are impossible, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more background assumptions...

to "scanning hypothesis", the directional properties of REM sleep are related to a shift of gaze in dream imagery. Against this hypothesis is that such...

The cancer exodus hypothesis establishes that circulating tumor cell clusters (CTC clusters) maintain their multicellular structure throughout the metastatic...

terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: mortality salience causes existential anxiety that may be buffered by...

The sexual orientation hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Donald McCreary in 1994 that attempts to explain the impact of gender stereotypes on judgments...

the number of segments composing the head". In the 1980s, the "new head hypothesis" was proposed, suggesting that the vertebrate head is an evolutionary...

colonization explosion Colonization explosion According to the Great Filter hypothesis, at least one of these steps—if the list were complete—must be improbable...

In economics, the absolute income hypothesis concerns how a consumer divides their disposable income between consumption and saving. It is part of the...

The nest protection hypothesis (NPH) is one of multiple hypotheses that seek to explain the behaviour of birds repeatedly introducing green, often aromatic...

which would contain nearly all living bilaterian animals. Under this hypothesis, Xenacoelomorpha forms the earliest diverging branch of Bilateria, with...

The pool chlorine hypothesis is the hypothesis that long-term attendance at indoor chlorinated swimming pools by children up to the age of about 6–7 years...

Differential adhesion hypothesis (DAH) is a hypothesis that explains cellular movement during morphogenesis with thermodynamic principles. In DAH tissues...

Elamo-Dravidian language family (also known as the Zagrosian language family) is a hypothesised language family that links the Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day...

Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, and the Poincaré conjecture at the...

The CoRR hypothesis states that the location of genetic information in cytoplasmic organelles permits regulation of its expression by the reduction-oxidation...

The Janzen–Connell hypothesis is a well-known hypothesis for the maintenance of high species biodiversity in the tropics. It was published independently...

The obstetrical dilemma is a hypothesis to explain why humans often require assistance from other humans during childbirth to avoid complications, whereas...

unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies)...

views about the nature of God and creation. According to the documentary hypothesis, the first account – which begins with Genesis 1:1 and ends with the first...

African history were the work of "Hamites". Since the 1960s, the Hamitic hypothesis and Hamitic theory, along with other theories of "race science", have...

The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudoscientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth...

The river barrier hypothesis is a hypothesis seeking to partially explain the high species diversity in the Amazon Basin, first presented by Alfred Russel...

The tetrahedral hypothesis is an obsolete scientific theory attempting to explain the arrangement of the Earth's continents and oceans by referring to...

The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis (APT) is a theory in evolutionary biology that suggests certain genes may confer beneficial effects early in an...

singular cardinals hypothesis (SCH) arose from the question of whether the least cardinal number for which the generalized continuum hypothesis (GCH) might fail...

In psychology and media studies, the parasocial contact hypothesis is that positive portrayals of minority groups in mass media can reduce prejudice in...

The wood-pasture hypothesis (also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory) is a scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...

three-source hypothesis is a candidate solution to the synoptic problem. It combines aspects of the two-source hypothesis and the Farrer hypothesis. It states...

conserved biological pathways, such as RNA processing. Consistent with the hypothesis that purifying selection has reduced Neanderthal contribution in present-day...

level and the corresponding null hypothesis is true, there is only a 5% risk of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis. However, if 100 tests are each...

The patriarch hypothesis is a hypothesis that explains the occurrence of menopause in human females and how a long post-fertile period (up to one third...

Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis is a neurological theory proposed by Norman Geschwind and Albert Galaburda in 1987. The hypothesis posits there are sex...

The cooperative eye hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the appearance of the human eye. It suggests that the eye's distinctive visible characteristics...

"The Infestation Hypothesis" is the second episode of the fifth season of The Big Bang Theory that first aired on CBS on September 22, 2011. It is the...

T cells (also known as T lymphocytes) are an important part of the immune system and play a central role in the adaptive immune response. T cells can be...

Love Hypothesis, was a New York Times best seller and is currently being developed into a feature film. Hazelwood's first novel, The Love Hypothesis, was...

The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis argues that in the cognitive evolution of humans, there was an evolutionary tradeoff between short-term working memory...

HarperOne. ISBN 978-0062071477. Meyer, SC (2021). Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe...

written multiple books for general audiences, including The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) examining the relationship between ancient philosophies and modern...

in Africa The father tongue hypothesis proposes the idea that humans tend to speak their father's language. The hypothesis is based on a 1997 proposal...

The market timing hypothesis, in corporate finance, is a theory of how firms and corporations decide whether to finance their investment with equity or...

mechanisms include the Complementary DNA (cDNA) hypothesis and the bulk flow hypothesis. The cDNA hypothesis involves the use of messenger RNA (mRNAs) to...

The oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis (OPV AIDS) is a largely discredited hypothesis which argued the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines...

common case, null hypothesis testing, there are two hypotheses, a null hypothesis H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} and an alternative hypothesis H 1 {\displaystyle...

The Neolithic creolisation hypothesis, first put forward by Marek Zvelebil in 1995, situates the Proto-Indo-European Urheimat in northern Europe in Neolithic...

The iris hypothesis was a hypothesis proposed by Richard Lindzen and colleagues in 2001 that suggested increased sea surface temperature in the tropics...

dispersal hypothesis proposes that many of the largest language families in the world dispersed along with the expansion of agriculture. This hypothesis was...

Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin (KPSS) tests are used for testing a null hypothesis that an observable time series is stationary around a deterministic trend...

Fine-tuned universe – Hypothesis about life in the universe Goldilocks principle – Analogy for optimal conditions Great Filter – Hypothesis of barriers to forming...

glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia models the subset of pathologic mechanisms of schizophrenia linked to glutamatergic signaling. The hypothesis was initially...

controversial 1985 book Seven Clues to the Origin of Life. The book popularized a hypothesis he began to develop in the mid-1960s—that self-replication of clay crystals...

The Organizational-Activational Hypothesis states that steroid hormones permanently organize the nervous system during early development, which is reflected...

zero or nothing, simply a result that does not support the hypothesis. In statistical hypothesis testing, a null result occurs when an experimental result...

Dickey–Fuller test (ADF) tests the null hypothesis that a unit root is present in a time series sample. The alternative hypothesis depends on which version of the...

Venom optimization hypothesis, also known as venom metering, is a biological hypothesis which postulates that venomous animals have physiological control...

ζ = 0 {\textstyle \zeta =0} is called as the Stokes hypothesis. The validity of Stokes hypothesis can be demonstrated for monoatomic gas both experimentally...

Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 which supported Watson and Crick's hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative. In semiconservative replication...

phonological deficit hypothesis is a prevalent cognitive-level explanation for the cause of reading difficulties and dyslexia. The hypothesis is based on evidence...

practice of "presenting a post hoc hypothesis in the introduction of a research report as if it were an a priori hypothesis". Hence, a key characteristic of...

The impressionable years hypothesis is a theory of political psychology that posits that individuals form durable political attitudes and party affiliations...

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) suggests that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too...

The predation risk allocation hypothesis attempts to explain how and why animals' behaviour and foraging strategies differ in various predatory situations...

more than a thousand years later. According to the prevailing Kurgan hypothesis, the original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans may have been in the...

The Ural-Altaic hypothesis was elaborated at least as early as 1836 by W. Schott and in 1838 by F. J. Wiedemann. The "Altaic" hypothesis, as mentioned by...

The Dirac large numbers hypothesis (LNH) is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force scales...

The Jerusalem School Hypothesis is one of many possible solutions to the synoptic problem, that the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew both relied...

characters appeared on more shows, and so on, a "Tommy Westphall Universe" hypothesis (postulated by Dwayne McDuffie) argues that a significant amount of fictional...

The mesopredator release hypothesis is an ecological theory used to describe the interrelated population dynamics between apex predators and mesopredators...

In the development of vertebrate animals, the functional matrix hypothesis is a phenomenological description of bone growth. It proposes that "the origin...

series Adults. That year, she joined cast of the film adaptation The Love Hypothesis. In 2025, she could also be seen as Claudia in the second season of the...

At the time, it supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that the conditions on the primitive Earth favored chemical reactions...

descended from a common segmented ancestor. The Articulata hypothesis is an alternative to the hypothesis that ecdysis (the shedding of outer cuticle) is a primitive...

evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, formally proposed by Robert Trivers and Dan Willard in 1973, suggests...

contained in the kykeon drink (see Entheogenic theories below). Although this hypothesis continues to receive attention, it was not well received by classicists...

and complementation hypothesis, to distinguish it from the traditional variation hypothesis. The repair and complementation hypothesis assumes that genetic...

The small set expansion hypothesis or small set expansion conjecture in computational complexity theory is an unproven computational hardness assumption...

universal hypothesis testing is a special case of binary simple hypothesis testing. The universal problem is to distinguish between a simple null hypothesis H...

The dopamine hypothesis of stuttering attributes to the phenomenon of stuttering a hyperactive and disturbed dopaminergic signal transduction in the brain...

The drunken monkey hypothesis proposes that human attraction to alcohol may derive from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and...

anti-exhaustion hypothesis is a possible explanation for the existence of large repertoires and the song switching behaviour exhibited in birds. This hypothesis states...

able to pseudo-replicate. This hypothesis is contrary to the RNA world hypothesis. The GADV-protein world hypothesis was first proposed by Kenji Ikehara...

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a set of ideas which purports to explain when and why an isolated quantum mechanical system can be accurately...

null hypothesis in statistical hypothesis testing. A type II error, or a false negative, is the incorrect acceptance of a false null hypothesis. An analysis...

{\displaystyle t(\tau )={\frac {c}{g}}\sinh {\frac {g\tau }{c}}} The clock hypothesis is the assumption that the rate at which a clock is affected by time dilation...

1953. Andrew Huxley and Niedergerke introduced it as a "very attractive" hypothesis. Before the 1950s, there were several competing theories on muscle contraction...

aspect of the heterotrophic theory (also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis) concerning the origin of life, first proposed by Alexander Oparin in...

The frequency format hypothesis is the idea that the brain understands and processes information better when presented in frequency formats rather than...

null hypothesis testing and if the estimated value exists in the critical areas, the alternative hypothesis is accepted over the null hypothesis. A one-tailed...

The Independence hypothesis is a proposed solution to the synoptic problem. It holds that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are each original compositions formed...

The Mars ocean hypothesis states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history...

Indo-Hittite (also Indo-Anatolian) refers to Edgar Howard Sturtevant's 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages split off a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language...

The Clovis First theory refers to the hypothesis that the Clovis culture represents the earliest human presence in the Americas about 13,000 years ago...

East Antarctica) is the hypothesis that the Southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica. The hypothesis of a late Precambrian...

rearrangement, the latter termed the "breakage-first hypothesis". Muller inferred from this hypothesis that for the continued operation of a broken ended...

exceptions to the predictions of the social intelligence hypothesis, which that hypothesis has no predictive model for, are successfully predicted by...

The axial twist theory (a.k.a. axial twist hypothesis) is a proposed scientific theory to explain a range of unusual aspects of the body plan of vertebrates...

both sides of the English Channel. It contrasts with the Insular Celtic hypothesis, which asserts that Goidelic and Brythonic underwent a period of common...

The cholesterol hypothesis is a combination of the amyloid hypothesis, tau hypothesis, and potentially the inflammatory hypothesis. Cholesterol was shown...

Genetic sexual attraction is a hypothesis that attraction may be a product of genetic similarities. While there is scientific evidence for the position...

market forces first increase and then decrease economic inequality. The hypothesis remains highly contested by economists, with no consensus regarding its...

Interpersonal complementarity hypothesis asserts that individuals often behave in ways that evoke complementary or reciprocal behavior from others. More...

In statistics, sequential analysis or sequential hypothesis testing is statistical analysis where the sample size is not fixed in advance. Instead data...

include the varanoid hypothesis, which holds that mosasaurians are most closely related to monitor lizards, and the pythonomorph hypothesis, which argues for...

test that checks a randomness hypothesis for a two-valued data sequence. More precisely, it can be used to test the hypothesis that the elements of the sequence...

in the distributional hypothesis: linguistic items with similar distributions have similar meanings. The distributional hypothesis in linguistics is derived...

The isotopic resonance hypothesis (IsoRes) postulates that certain isotopic compositions of chemical elements affect kinetics of chemical reactions involving...

In statistical hypothesis testing, the error exponent of a hypothesis testing procedure is the rate at which the probabilities of Type I and Type II decay...

in fact equiconsistent with the failure of the Kurepa hypothesis, because if the Kurepa hypothesis is false then the cardinal ω2 is inaccessible in the...

According to the northern cryptic glacial refugial hypothesis (or glacial survival hypothesis), during the last ice age cold tolerant plant and animal...

test tests the null hypothesis that a unit root is present in an autoregressive (AR) time series model. The alternative hypothesis is different depending...

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (French: L'Hypothèse du tableau volé) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and shot...

rather than the sequence of pictures. These results supported Paivio's hypothesis that verbal information is processed differently from visual information...

In statistical hypothesis testing, a two-sample test is a test performed on the data of two random samples, each independently obtained from a different...

The kindling hypothesis of depression proposes that each episode of depression in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) induces lasting neurobiological...

"strange matter hypothesis", proposed separately by Arnold Bodmer in 1971 and by Edward Witten in 1984. According to this hypothesis, when a large enough...

theoretical medium that was required by wave theories of light. The aether hypothesis was the topic of considerable debate throughout its history, as it required...

evolutionary arms races between predator and prey, and the Red Queen's hypothesis. Gene duplication is introduced as a means of increasing a species's genetic...

Eagar is one scientist who has paid some attention to the demolition hypothesis — albeit grudgingly. A materials engineer at the Massachusetts Institute...

The ovulatory shift hypothesis asserts that human women experience evolutionarily adaptive changes in subconscious thoughts and behaviors related to mating...

The drift-barrier hypothesis is an evolutionary hypothesis formulated by Michael Lynch in 2010. It suggests that the perfection of the performance of a...

God: The Failed Hypothesis is a 2007 non-fiction book by scientist Victor J. Stenger who argues that there is no evidence for the existence of a deity...

medium for the propagation of light waves was widely discussed. The aether hypothesis arose because physicists of that era could not conceive of light waves...

(or Aβ) hypothesis, and the tau hypothesis. The amyloid hypothesis, also known as the "amyloid cascade hypothesis" or "Aβ cascade hypothesis", holds that...

public health is a hypothesis put forth by James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. The hypothesis was supported by...

of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis, this material was drawn from the early Church's oral gospel traditions...

In finance, the noisy market hypothesis stands in opposition to the efficient-market hypothesis by arguing that security prices do not always reflect a...

The minster hypothesis is a debated view that the organisation of the early Anglo-Saxon Christian church was based around minsters staffed by communities...

Henry Pratt. The Airy hypothesis was later refined by the Finnish geodesist Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen and the Pratt hypothesis by the American geodesist...

The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH), sometimes known as thought ordered mental expression (TOME), is a view in linguistics, philosophy of mind and...

inversion (SAI), or more generally, head movement. VP-internal subject hypothesis: A hypothesis on the inner structure of VP proposed by researchers such as Yuki...

The Multi-source hypothesis is a proposed solution to the synoptic problem, holding that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not directly interdependent but have...

The stress gradient hypothesis (SGH) is an evolutionary theory in microbial ecology and community ecology that provides a framework to predict when positive...

The apparent-time hypothesis is a methodological construct in sociolinguistics whereby language change is studied by comparing the speech of individuals...

of proponents of the "Nonexistence Hypothesis" and their arguments, presenting seven arguments against the hypothesis as put forward by Wells and his predecessors...

as Michael Long's Interaction Hypothesis, Merrill Swain's Output Hypothesis, and Richard Schmidt's Noticing Hypothesis were introduced. Additionally,...

Genes hypothesis of learning abilities and disabilities was originally coined in an article by Plomin & Kovas (2005). The Generalist Genes hypothesis suggests...

Physics, physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman offers the atomic hypothesis as the single most prolific scientific concept. The basic idea that matter...

According to the biodiversity hypothesis, reduced contact of people with natural environment and biodiversity may adversely affect the human commensal...

a socially transmitted disease over the Internet." According to this hypothesis, people with delusions of parasitosis and other psychological disorders...

correct procedure is to test any hypothesis on a data set that was not used to generate the hypothesis. Testing a hypothesis suggested by the data can very...

The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis was first proposed by Bernd Blossey and Rolf Nötzold in 1995 as a way to explain the success...

In statistical hypothesis testing, e-values quantify the evidence in the data against a null hypothesis (e.g., "the coin is fair", or, in a medical context...

exact statistical hypothesis test. A permutation test involves two or more samples. The (possibly counterfactual) null hypothesis is that all samples...

The God gene hypothesis proposes that human spirituality is influenced by heredity and that a specific gene, called vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2)...

computer; in general, it concerns objects that store information. The hypothesis considers the mind to encompass every level of cognition, including the...

The one gene–one enzyme hypothesis is the idea that genes act through the production of enzymes, with each gene responsible for producing a single enzyme...

The Dahrendorf hypothesis is the name given to a hypothesis by the German-British political scientist Ralf Dahrendorf, which states that diversity is desirable...

their predictions. The specifics tested by Crano were: Change of meaning hypothesis The items on the beginning of a list establish a theme that the participants...

The James–Lange theory (1884) is a hypothesis on the origin and nature of emotions and is one of the earliest theories of emotion within modern psychology...

The response modulation hypothesis is an etiological theory which argues that psychopathy is an attention disorder, and is not caused by an inherent lack...

continuum hypothesis implies the Suslin hypothesis. The Suslin hypothesis is also independent of both the generalized continuum hypothesis (proved by...

Z-test (also called the two-sample proportion Z-test) is a statistical hypothesis test for assessing whether two groups differ in the proportion of a binary...

The neurotrophic hypothesis of depression proposes that major depressive disorder (MDD) is caused, at least partly, by impaired neurotrophic support. Neurotrophic...

synthase. Peter D. Mitchell proposed the chemiosmotic hypothesis in 1961. In brief, the hypothesis was that most adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis...

Orthodoxy as their religion and adopt its rituals and prayers. The nomadic hypothesis was that the Cossacks came from one or more nomadic peoples who at different...

The adipose tissue expandability hypothesis posits that metabolic dysregulation that appears to be caused by excess weight, such as type 2 diabetes and...

conjecture). The term hypothesis is also used in this sense (e.g. Riemann hypothesis), which should not be confused with "hypothesis" as the premise of a...

competing explanations: A hypothesis involving a designer, that is, a complex being to account for the complexity that we see. A hypothesis, with supporting theories...

Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe....

The defensive attribution hypothesis (or bias, theory, or simply defensive attribution) is a social psychological term where an observer attributes the...

(2005) p. 133 William Coleman, "Science and Symbol in the Turner Frontier Hypothesis," American Historical Review (1966) 72#1 pp. 22–49 JSTOR 1848169 Woodard...

for the function of exaggerated swellings. Alone, however, no single hypothesis is believed to account for the function of sexual swellings; a combination...

which critically examines the Gaia hypothesis, originally proposed by James Lovelock in the 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis suggests that life on Earth actively...

including free-of-charge, free software, and commercial software. Flaw hypothesis methodology is a systems analysis and penetration prediction technique...

In statistics, particularly in hypothesis testing, the Hotelling's T-squared distribution (T2), proposed by Harold Hotelling, is a multivariate probability...

test is a type of statistical hypothesis test in which the null hypothesis is well specified, but the alternative hypothesis is more loosely specified. Tests...

Zoo Hypothesis is the third studio album by Chicago band Tub Ring, released in 2004. The song "Alexander in Charge" contains a sample from the movie Taxi...

Dunstan Baby Language is a hypothesis about infantile vocal reflexes as signals, in humans. The hypothesis is that across cultures and linguistic groups...

human being and the emotional response to the object. The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will elicit uncanny or...

The beneficial acclimation hypothesis (BAH) is the physiological hypothesis that acclimating to a particular environment (usually thermal) provides an...

early life undernutrition is thought to be the key driving factor to the hypothesis, other environmental factors have been explored for their role in susceptibility...

in this movement. According to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis, or renewed Steppe hypothesis, the oldest Indo-European migration split from the earliest...

the people accounting hypothesis is a social psychological theory based on social categorization. It is defined as "a hypothesis that describes how a simple...

The pollution haven hypothesis posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the...

respects with contemporary understanding of the brain, the triune brain hypothesis was largely abandoned by comparative neuroscientists at the turn of the...

invariance may lead to the existence of a quantized time. The thermal time hypothesis is a possible solution to the problem of time in classical and quantum...

script) Pre-Germanic: Germanic substrate hypothesis Pre-Celtic languages: Insular Celtic: Goidelic substrate hypothesis For the British Isles, see Celtic settlement...

equation was developed much later than Reye's hypothesis [it] (sometimes also known as energy dissipative hypothesis), though both came to the same physical...

The sensory drive hypothesis is a hypothesis in population ecology that posits that when local environmental conditions differ between conspecific populations...

Dunathan stereoelectronic hypothesis is a concept in chemistry to explain the stereospecific cleavage of bonds using pyridoxal phosphate. This occurs because...

who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. According to the Neogrammarian hypothesis, a diachronic sound change affects...

The immortal DNA strand hypothesis posits that adult stem cells replicate their DNA asymmetrically to minimize mutations in their genomes. It was proposed...

electrons also have wave-like properties. His thesis started from the hypothesis, "that to each portion of energy with a proper mass m0 one may associate...

The clathrate gun hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the periods of rapid warming during the Quaternary. The hypothesis is that changes in fluxes...

Heliotropic hypothesis is the process when social systems evolve toward the most positive images they hold of themselves. Society portal Psychology portal...

Michelson–Morley experiment and to rescue the hypothesis of the stationary aether (Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis). Although both FitzGerald and Lorentz...

The Calmfors–Driffill hypothesis is a macroeconomic theory in labour economics that states that there is a direct relationship between the degree of collective...

fetus in fetu. One hypothesis is that the mass begins as a normal fetus but becomes enveloped inside its twin. The other hypothesis is that the mass is...

It is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student's t-distribution under the null hypothesis. It is most commonly applied...

single impact hypothesis as a revision of the original theory published in 1984. This hypothesis has been countered by a new hypothesis of a giant impact...

In statistical hypothesis testing, specifically multiple hypothesis testing, the q-value in the Storey procedure provides a means to estimate the positive...

Tiebout model, also known as Tiebout sorting, Tiebout migration, or Tiebout hypothesis, is a positive political theory model first described by economist Charles...

flowering plants, but more recent molecular studies have brought this hypothesis into question, with many recent phylogenies finding them to be nested...