• tromars@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Not a scientist nor native English speaker myself, so I’m wondering: shouldn’t that technically say „hypothesis + evidence“ instead of „theory + evidence“? Which is of course nitpicky (if I’m even correct) in the context of a tumblr post, but I’m still curious

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      2 months ago

      A hypothesis is a theory, one that is being tested. It’s got the same root word in both theory and thesis!