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Re: Back to basics – testing your hypothesis.
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: January 17, 2007 11:48AM
From what you are saying you are attempting to verify your hypothesis is correct by testing your hypothesis. One thing you may want to consider is that in testing a hypothesis one can only disprove the hypothesis. The hypothesis can never be proven correct. Just the fact that a hypothesis is accepted does not guarantee the hypothesis is correct. The results of the testing only means the data from your process supports the hypothesis. When it comes to fire behavior, there is no way to precisely duplicate the results. Because of this phenomena, it is possible to run multiple experiments and get different results. It is possible to have a hypothesis that explains the observation, but is the incorrect explanation. This same reasoning results in different investigators, examining the same data, reaching different conclusions.