Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 149 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
GOODE and Hatt defines hypothesis as a proposition which is still to be tested. Northrop says that a good hypothesis guides the research like a pole star.
Body · continuous prose
A good hypothesis should be based on sound reason and not just stereotypes. It might be false during later research. Even a false hypothesis guides the research, it tells about what attributes information needs to be collected etc.
KARL POPPER advocates that a hypothesis or sociological research to be scientific, it should have scope of being falsifying. for eg. marx's hypothesis that communism will come is not scientific as
it can't be falsified.
A good hypothesis should be specific that it clearly defines the relationship between the variables. At the same time it must also have a scope to be falsified.
If it is not falsiable, it becomes the reality i.e. truth.
Close · a summary
Hence a good hypothesis should have enough scope for falsification.