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What is a hypothesis?

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An informed guess the researcher thinks might be true and can be tested.

2
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How does a researcher use a hypothesis?

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The researcher looks on what others have published based on three functions.

  1. Researcher avoids repeating research that has already been done
  2. Reading provides the researcher with an idea and gives their research direction
  3. Ideas can be shaped into a hypothesis the researcher wishes to test by carrying out sociological research