... of interest, by eliminating or accounting for extraneous factors, and where one can repeatedly test the system under study after making limited, controlled changes in it. Observation of a phenomenon and inductive reasoning leads to formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomenon. An hypothesis is a limited statement regarding cause and effect in specific situations; it also refers to our state of ... knowledge before experimental work has been performed and perhaps even before new phenomena have been predicted. We then use the hypothesis and deductive reasoning to predict the exi...

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