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1)Make?

2)Test?

3)Reject?

4)Accept?

Let's say it's 1#.

Nothing necessarily. A hypothesis can easily be born simply from a feeling or a thought or a sense or whatever. A hypothesis is really just a well structured question that relates to something of which you are aware. So maybe you are perpetually sad on Tuesdays, you don't need to necessarily observe anything before forming the hypothesis, you can simply form the hypothesis "Tuesdays make me sad," and then from there you make your observations that will allow you to reject or accept your hypothesis.

Granted, you could be argueably "observing" that which prompts your hypothesis, but when you start getting into the real of hypotheses related to highly abstract and intangible matters, you may never have any discerete observations that prompt your hypothesis, you might just have, say, a feeling. For example, if you're almost always angry for no apparent reason, you might form a hypothesis that your anger is modulated by some factor that is external to you, and test that hypothesis against the hypotheiss that your anger is internally mediated.

If we're talking about 2#

Again, not really much of anything. You can have the shittest of hypothesis as far such can be, and that is no problem. You're more concerned with the act of either rejecting or accepting the hypothesis than you are in the perfection of the hypothesis itself.

People make the mistake of thinking that they need grand and earth shattering hypothses to do science. In actuality, all you need to do is make some kind of hypothesis and then let the scientific proccess do its work.

You can easily string together a number of dimunitive hypothesis to form a body of research that supports a very strong theory and that in turn across sufficient time becomes a law.

As for 3# and 4#, you should learn about hypothesis testing as that is a good place to start when trying to determine a metric by which you will accept or reject you hypothesis.

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