what is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction?

Answer 1

A hypothesis is an assumption about the nature of something. It's based on facts or experimentation.

A prediction is a guess about an outcome.

Answer 2

Is A Hypothesis A Prediction

Answer 3

Hypothesis: a proposal to explain facts or observations. It is based on a scientific understanding and is a question that a scientists seeks and answer to.

Prediction: a statement about the future. It is just a guess or based off of some known common knowledge.
However a prediction is a guess about any random event. Where a hypothesis is a carefully researched expectation that one hopes to answer through research.
Hope that helps, there are many similarities.

Answer 4

A Hypothesis Is the Beginnings of a theory and a true prediction is Based on established fact added together to equal the sum of there parts

Answer 5

If you're doing science, you make a hypothesis about how you think something works or why something happens. Then you make a prediction based on your hypothesis. Then you do experiments to see if your predictions came true. If not, your hypothesis is wrong. If the predictions do come true, your hypothesis MAY be correct.

Answer 6

A hypothesis (from Greek ὑπόθεσις) is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon or reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena.

A prediction or forecast is a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future.

Answer 7

Aer you aware that even the RCC has publically accepted evolution? As a deist, I believe evolution is true. BUT, if you actually looked around with an open mind, you may note how many people also state that the theory of evolution is a fact. That seems like a worse mistake to me. Also, why do you care??? I see all of these people patting themselves on the back as being the smartest people ever simply because they accept evolution. You ask them what Boyle's law is, and they have not a clue. Guess what? I have never used the common ancestory of all life in my personal or professional life. I do, however, use Boyle's law. All this bluster is nothing but people trying to feel superior and justify their religions. Jeeit, If you are going to play a little word game to make yourself feel superior, then have at it, but it means nothing. CHANGE is a fact. The daughter is not an exact replicate of the mother is an observed phenomenon. Not even the most die-hard young earth creationist denies this. You are not arguing over this, you are arguing over the common ancestory of all life. Calling evolution a fact then replacing evolution with the theory of evolution is just a verbal shell game. Talk about what you mean or don't talk about it. Given you now have a bunch of people that think a theory is a fact and have actually argued with me about this very thing, is evidence of the detrimental effect of this stupid verbal shell game. In fact, people like you are the problem. I specifically said the "theory of evolution" is not a fact. You replace my "theory of evolution" with "evolution" being a fact. You think you are helping science by educating Creationists, when you are really just hindering science by confusing the LARGE majority that are not young earth creationists. You know the difference between a theory and a fact, so act that way.

Answer 8

A hypothesis is an educated prediction (i.e., a prediction based all the knowledge available).

Answer 9

A hypothesis is facts and data.A prediction is a guess that you make on something.

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