Phrase Hound found 42 phrases and 5 compound words that contain hypothesis. The most common are listed below. Open hypothesis in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 42
- null hypothesisA hypothesis set up to be nullified or refuted in order to support an alternative hypothesis. When used, the null hypothesis is presumed true until statistical evidence in the form of a hypothesis test indicates otherwise. Therefore, the …
- documentary hypothesisThe hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.
- induction hypothesisA statement which might be true for any natural number. In mathematical induction, such a statement is proven true for all natural numbers by first proving it for the base case and then proving that each case implies the next.
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesisThe hypothesis that the structure of a language affects the worldview or cognition of its speakers.
- Riemann hypothesisThe conjecture that the zeros of the Riemann zeta function exist only at the negative even integers and certain complex numbers whose real part is ½.
- working hypothesisA hypothesis that is weakly held, tentatively, as a best guess; such a hypothesis among several plausible ones that is driving or underpinning a scientific team's work at a given time.
- Red Queen hypothesisAn evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing …
- alternative hypothesisA rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test.
- God hypothesisThe hypothesis that God exists, seen as something able to be analyzed by a scientific approach rather than accepted by faith.
- continuum hypothesisThe hypothesis which states that any infinite subset of ℝ must have the cardinality of either the set of natural numbers or of ℝ itself.
- simulation hypothesisThe hypothesis that seeming reality is in fact a simulation (such as a computer program) of which humans, the simulants, are unaware.
- interface hypothesisThe hypothesis that, for adult second language learners, acquiring grammatical properties and interfacing between them (for example, between syntax and semantics) should not be problematic, but that interfacing between these and an …
- mafia hypothesisA hypothesis that posits that host birds accept brood parasite eggs and chicks to avoid retaliatory destruction of their nests by the parasite, establishing a coevolutionary equilibrium where host compliance is maintained through parasite …
- critical brain hypothesisThe hypothesis that certain biological neuronal networks work near phase transitions.
- permanent income hypothesisA theory attempting to describe how agents spread consumption over their lifetimes, supposing that a person's consumption at a point in time is determined not just by their current income but also by their expected income in future years …
- Rare Earth hypothesisThe hypothesis that the evolution of life required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances, and for this reason complex extraterrestrial life is a very improbable phenomenon and likely to be …
- Gaia hypothesisThe idea that both the biosphere and the inorganic components of Earth interact to form a coherent, complex system that allows for life to persist.
- berserker hypothesisThe proposition that humanity has not detected intelligent alien life because emerging civilizations are systematically destroyed by self-replicating, lethal von Neumann probes launched by a prior advanced species.
- Monro-Kellie hypothesisA hypothesis that states that the sum of the volumes of brain tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, and intracranial blood within the rigid skull remains constant.
- ovulatory shift hypothesisThe hypothesis that women's taste in men, and subconscious thoughts and behaviors, change throughout the menstrual cycle.
- Omphalos hypothesisThe proposition that God created the universe within the past few thousands of years but also introduced false evidence that the universe is of great age.
- Prout's hypothesisAn early 19th-century attempt to explain the existence of the various chemical elements: the hypothesis that, since the atomic weights for known elements appeared to be whole multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen, the hydrogen atom …
- Red Queen's hypothesisAlternative form of Red Queen hypothesis: An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against …
- five-minute hypothesisThe skeptical hypothesis that the world came into existence, with all apparent signs of history and the past fully-formed, only five minutes ago.
- sexy son hypothesisThe hypothesis, in evolutionary biology, that a female animal's optimal choice among potential mates is a male whose genes will produce male offspring with the best chance of reproductive success, irrespective of the mate's capacity as a …
Compound words 5
- counterhypothesisA contrasting hypothesis put forward as a response to another hypothesis.
- hypothesistOne who proposes or supports a hypothesis.
- multihypothesisThat employs multiple hypotheses
- subhypothesisA hypothesis forming part of a larger hypothesis.
- hypothesisersplural of hypothesiser: A person who hypothesizes.