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Alternative Hypothesis
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Alternative Hypothesis
A hypothesis the tester wishes to prove. When testing a hypothesis, a scientist often begins with an alternative hypothesis and a null hypothesis, which cannot be true. He/she then attempts to prove the alternative hypothesis, often by trying to prove the null hypothesis false.
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Recent evidence, however, suggests an alternate hypothesis.
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001) was significant, indicating that the null hypothesis that the two groups--teaching versus nonteaching--are identical must be rejected and the alternate hypothesis that the two groups are significantly different is supported.
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However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point, should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternate hypothesis, grounded in religion, into the classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.
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