Research and statistical analysis help us understand how the world works, how effective medications and treatments are, what influences our health, the best approach for business practices, and much ...
Why SaaS Founders Should Care About HDD Building a startup means constantly navigating trade-offs: limited capital, ...
The Comments and Controversies article by Fisher and Anderson entitled, “The Breast Cancer Alternative Hypothesis: Is There Evidence to Justify Replacing It?” (J Clin Oncol 10.1200/JCO.2009.26.8292), ...
Most scientific studies that get published have “positive results,” meaning that the study proved its hypothesis. Say you hypothesize that a honeybee will favor one flower over another, and your ...
The efficient market hypothesis argues that current stock prices reflect all existing available information, making them fairly valued as they are presently. Given these assumptions, outperforming the ...
Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...
The rare earth hypothesis was proposed in a 2000 book by palaeontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee. It argues that while simple, microbial life may be common in the universe, complex, ...