H0 is called our null hypothesis. In classical statistics, it’s the baseline, or the hypothesis to which you’d like to give the benefit of the doubt. Here, it’s the hypothesis that we don ...

Thus, the hypothesis is true, but it may not be true 100% of the time. Scientific theory vs. scientific hypothesis. The best hypotheses are simple. They deal with a relatively narrow set of phenomena.

Researchers have used the technology behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to create a fake clinical-trial data set to support an unverified scientific claim. In a paper ...