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Is a scientific hypothesis accepted if there is no way to demonstrate he hypothesis is wrong????

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Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

no, a hypothesis is a guess of what you think the answer will be. it is only accepted when the data collected from the experiment support the thesis. If the hypothesis&#039;s guess does not exactly correspond with the results then it is proven wrong.  

Answer 3

Your question can be understood in a couple of different ways.

1.  If the hypothesis cannot be tested, then it is not a scientific hypothesis.  For example, some astronomers speculate that there may be many universes outside our own.  However, this is not a scientific hypothesis because it is impossible to make observations to test it.

2.  If the hypothesis has been tested many times and no experiment/observation has disproved it, then, it would be accepted and would be called a &quot;theory.&quot;

It may be helpful to know a little about &quot;hypothesis testing&quot; as it is done in statistics.

Each experiment has two hypotheses.  The null hypothesis, H0, states that the results of the experiment are due to chance.  Whatever was done in the experiment (the treatment) had no effect.

The alternate hypothesis, H1, states that the treatment had an effect.  An example might be, &quot;this acne medicine reduces the number of pimples.&quot;

An experiment is conducted to test H1, and H1 is accepted only if the statistics indicate that the treatment had an effect larger than would be expected by chance.  For example, that the acne medicine reduced the number of pimples below what would be expected from chance variation.

Probably most science is done without formal statistical tests.  In those cases, the scientists make judgments about how confident they are of observing a real effect instead of a chance variation.  If they are highly confident, they accept H1.

A key aspect of having confidence in H1 is whether the experiment can be replicated.  If other scientists try to do the same experiment and get the same results, then the confidence would be high that H1 is valid.  However, if  other scientists are unable to reproduce the experiment, H1 would be rejected.

Wikipedia has a discussion that is better than mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis#...

Answer 4

An Hypothesis is what you think will happen so even if you are wrong that is perfectly okay.

An Hypothesis has to be proven wrong to be wrong

Answer 5

a hypothesis is accepted weather it is wrong or right, what determines it is your conclusion, state that your hypothesis way either wrong or right.

if your hypothesis was wrong explain what you could have done differently to make you hypothesis true.