hypothesis

The European origin of the hypothesis has been used to blame Europe in part for the Rwandan genocide, a position held by anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani, whose son is mayor of New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

In writing history, there must be intense rigor — evidence is important and if you have evidence that should counteract any bias or hypothesis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

"Our experiments didn't begin with a specific hypothesis but revealed a fundamental processing mechanism in the visual system," says Lee.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

The efficient-markets hypothesis, developed decades ago by economists at the University of Chicago, stipulates that all available information is already factored into the market price.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

It is from this line of thinking that we get, it would seem, the first reference in English to an hypothesis as a theory that needs to be tested.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Some medical researchers let AI models take the lead alongside human lab workers to gather information, stress-test hypotheses, interpret data and spit out plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The continuing delay, he argues, points to competing hypotheses, unresolved leads and possible mechanical issues that have yet to be fully explained.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

"The connectome has shown us that most of our hypotheses are too simple. Now, we can develop more complex hypotheses and move forward with experiments to test them," Lee said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

It also puts forward hypotheses about why this belly-brain choreography exists.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

The theoretically more interesting field of inferential statistics uses probability theory to make predictions, to estimate important characteristics of a population, and to test the validity of hypotheses.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos