MAKING HYPOTHESES


DEFINITION

- Hypotheses are general statements about objects or events based on
explainable observation .

- Hypotheses are built based on inferences made on a certain investigation
or fair test .

- Hypotheses are relationship between two variables , the what to change
( manipulated ) variable and the what to observe or measure ( response )
variable .


STEPS IN ANSWERING


- Identify the what to change ( manipulated ) variable .

- Identify the what to observe / measure ( response ) variable .

- You must state what happen to the thing to measure/observe (whether increases or
decreases) if the thing to change is increased or decreased.

- Do not mention the what to keep the same ( constant ) variables in the
hypotheses .

- Every variables written in the hypothesis must have the ‘ parameter ’ .

- Hypotheses can be written in the reversible facts .