formulating a hypothesis

[ace1998]

I want to do the Statistical project "which team batting statistic best predicts run production" but I can't come up with a hypothesis. Help please.

[dcnick96]

Hello, and welcome to Science Buddies!

Your hypothesis will be an educated guess of what you think will happen. It is usually in the form of:
"If I do _____, then _______ will happen. You can find more information here.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ml#keyinfo

To make an educated guess, you must first research your topic. Have you done this? What kind of information have you found? Do you have initial ideas of what kind of experiment you want to do based on your research? Please write back with your thoughts so far, and we will go from there.

[pkstrode]

Your investigation is not hypothesis testing, it is discovery science. You are seeking the presence of a pattern. If you do discover a pattern, you can describe the pattern as a generalizing hypothesis. If you find a pattern and you can explain why it exists, you have come up with an explanatory hypothesis for the pattern. Hypotheses are not predictions, they are descriptions of patterns or explanations of mechanisms. A place to go for more detail is here:
https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.co ... ypothesis/

The author of this blog has also recently published a paper on the misunderstanding of hypotheses and predictions. A preview of the paper can be found here:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/abt ... b_contents

Cheers!
Paul