Creating a Argument from a Hypothesis

Creating a Argument from a Hypothesis

A hypothesis is a theory about something that can be tested; it is used predominantly in scientific research. All hypotheses should be able to be falsifiable, which means to find data that would prove it false. All hypotheses need a cause and effect, for instance one simple hypothesis could be this, if oil floats in water since it is lighter then water. This is easy to test since you can place oil with liquids that heavier a lighter then water to prove. The point is to disprove or to prove the hypothesis so someone can make a scientific law. A good hypothesis should easy to disprove as it’s to prove or else you are not going to get results. Using the example above if the oil also floated in things heavier then water then we would know that this is not the reason it floats and would have to come up with another reason to why it has this property with water. 

The first thing you should is form a hypothesis for your argument. Try to think of something that you believe that can be proven and disproven. I would suggest not doing this on something you strongly believe in since it may make it hard for you to stay unbiased. The next step is to gather data to try and prove your theory. The best way to do this is to try something that would prove your idea and something that disproves your idea. A good way doing this is doing experiments involving your subject. Once you get your results form an argument why you think got your results your theory around the idea if you were right or wrong. From here try to understand the larger implications of what your hypothesis revealed.

 For my paper I used the hypothesis that people act more freely and thus can be more human on the internet. My experiment in this case was called ethnography. Ethnography is a combination of observations, interviews and trying to understand the context. I spent good deal of time just watching groups of people trying to figure out why they were doing something. I spent asking people if they felt they were more like their real self on the game Second Life. In the made sure that it was clear what it meant to be more human in my paper and would ask questions based on those ideas. In the end I found that the evidence largely supported my hypothesis. I then discussed how this data proved Postman wrong since technology was giving people the ability to in fact be what they really needed to be.

Your project to help you understand how to write about a hypothesis will have to write about how separate communities interact with each other. In this assignment you will make a hypothesis on how an urban community and sub-urban community interact with each other. The paper will be 4 to 6 double spaced pages long. The first step is to come with the hypothesis. You will then have to get at least written documents of interaction between the two communities. You will also have to least find an event were this happens and attend it. While attending the function try to form a ethnography. Your hypothesis should be and research should be half the paper and your analyses should be the other half.