Does a hypothesis in science mean a tentative guess?

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Does a hypothesis in science mean a tentative guess?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-23T12:53:59

If you like. I would prefer $an explanation consistent with the data.$ $"an explanation consistent with the data."$

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An $hypothesis$ $"hypothesis"$ is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. The hypothesis may be wrong or right; the hypothesis is $scientific$ $"scientific"$ if it is $testable$ $"testable"$ .

$Testability$ $"Testability"$ is the hallmark of a scientific hypothesis. The hypothesis may be wrong or right, but in order to be scientific, it must be $testable$ $"testable"$ . That is, we can do further experiments to test the accuracy of the hypothesis, and such tests lead to clear results that allows confirmation or rejection of the original hypothesis.

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