It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data.

The textbook method of concluding the hypothesis test is to compare

Post hoc tests such as Tukey's range test most commonly compare every group mean with every other group mean and typically incorporate some method of controlling for Type I errors.

For Euclid ’ s method to succeed, the starting lengths must satisfy two requirements: ( i ) the lengths must not be 0, AND ( ii ) the subtraction must be “ proper ”, a test must guarantee that the smaller of the two numbers is subtracted from the larger ( alternately, the two can be equal so their subtraction yields 0 ).

The discovery and elucidation of aberration is now regarded as a classic case of the application of scientific method, in which observations are made to test a theory, but unexpected results are sometimes obtained that in turn lead to new discoveries.

A novel assay that mimics dry bacterial exposure to touch surfaces was developed because this test method is thought to more closely replicate real world touch surface exposure conditions.

It should be noted, however, the ' formal ' test is criticised for not including consideration of convergent evolution, and Theobald has defended the method against this claim.

* Cone penetration test ( CPT ), an in situ testing method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils

* Equivalence partitioning, a method for devising test sets in software testing based on dividing the possible program inputs into equivalence classes according to the behavior of the program on those inputs

A traditional method for investigating suspected hypoglycemia is the oral glucose tolerance test, especially when prolonged to 3, 4, or 5 hours.

Although there is no way to prove that a certain lossy methodology is transparent, a properly conducted double-blind test can prove that a lossy method is not transparent.

Polymerase chain reaction is a method for selective replication of specific DNA and RNA sequences in the test tube.

If the situation requires it, it is also possible to define a method to execute before ( or after ) each ( or all ) of the test methods with the ( or ) and ( or ) annotations.

The best method presently known for testing the primality of Mersenne numbers is the Lucas – Lehmer primality test.

The scientific method requires observations of nature to formulate and test hypotheses.

He travels by flying car to Rosen Industries in Seattle, Washington, to administer a bounty hunter " empathy test ", a standard method for detection of androids posing as human in the form of a question and answer session, on the companies new Nexus-Six series.

Besides its established role as a diagnostic technique, PET has an expanding role as a method to assess the response to therapy, in particular, cancer therapy, where the risk to the patient from lack of knowledge about disease progress is much greater than the risk from the test radiation.

Most scientists, being scientific skeptics, test the reliability of certain kinds of claims by subjecting them to a systematic investigation using some form of the scientific method.

Standardization is the process of establishing a technical standard, which could be a standard specification, standard test method, standard definition, or standard procedure.

* Bresle method ( The method used to test for salt presence during coating applications.

A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a controlled experiment or an observational study ( not controlled ).

That is, different questions, and the answers to them, yield different scores — which indicate that an IQ test is a combination method of different examinations of different things.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.

Naturally, the statewide races will provide the major test for the expanding council.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

This first test is being leased for ten years but future projects will require at least 15 years.

The x-ray data did not permit Douglass to determine uniquely the space group, but a negative test for piezoelectricity led him to assume a center of symmetry.

The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

The wash wheel is the equipment preferred for the test.

Hudson now proposed to sail all the way through and test the seas beyond for the long-sought waterway.

There was no close examination of his clothes for bloodstains, and certainly no scientific test was made of them.

The bond issue will go to the state courts for a friendly test suit to test the validity of the act, and then the sales will begin and contracts let for repair work on some of Georgia's most heavily traveled highways.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.

Just to test himself, he played roulette for quarters on his old combination, five and seventeen, and within an hour, he had won, surprisingly, twenty dollars.

Pete stood by with a slide and took the smear, sent it down to the lab with a request for the test.