If a hypothesis isn't testable is it wrong?

Question

If a hypothesis isn't testable is it wrong?

Answer 1

Well, it could be right, it simply wouldn't be a hypothesis.  Here's the definition;

A tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation, and/or experimentation; An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; The antecedent of a conditional statement.

Since you posit the inability to test, then by definition it is not in fact a hypothesis.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Answer 2

If a hypothesis can't be tested, then it isn't science. It's speculation.

Answer 3

If a hypothesis isn't testable, it could be right or it could be wrong... No one knows because they can't test it...  

Answer 4

that depends on your hypotesis . . .

what is your hypothesis?

Answer 5

It could be...or it could be right. The whole ideology behind science is that "ideas are tested by experiment". So although a hypothesis may be interesting, and possibly even correct, if it is not testable, any assumptions or conclusions you make off of it are possibly incorrect. Although it's not useless, anything that results from assuming it is true must be used with caution.

Answer 6

No...it just isn't testable.

Like...if I hypothesized that there were ten billion stars in the sky (for example), but couldn't count them, it wouldn't be wrong, just kinda pointless.

If that made any sense.

Answer 7

No, it may be right or wrong.  But it's useless because we have no way of telling if it's right or wrong without testing it.