Priyamvada Ashok MhaddalkarAIR 13 · CSE 2021 · 135 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Hypothesis is a tentative statement that is not yet proven and the attempt of research is to validate the hypothesis statement.
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Significance of hypothesis
Hypothesis gives a direction to the research study. eg: To study poverty, a researcher could try to prove the hypothesis that illiteracy has a strong correlation to poverty.
Hypothesis helps to define the scope of the sociological research. Thus it prevents the researchers from going off-track.
Hypothesis helps to widen the knowledge base as it helps to prove new theories.
Hypothesis statement when well defined at the start of the research study helps the researches to collect the required data and reject non-relevant data.
Close · a summary
Thus, hypothesis plays a significant role in sociological theories and it is often said that a good hypothesis prevents a blind research.