Because the caculated strength of rock made such movement of earth's crust seemed impossible.
the hypothesis has not been proven wrong.
Depending on the results of that test, either accept or reject that hypothesis.
It means that the experiment is consistent with the hypothesis. It adds to the credibility of the hypothesis.
It means that she or he has to accept that the existing hypothesis appears to be true.
It means there is no reason why he should reject it, whether because there is no evidence to the contrary or because an experiment set up to test it affirmed that hypothesis.
It means there is no reason why he should reject it, whether because there is no evidence to the contrary or because an experiment set up to test it affirmed that hypothesis.
because he didn't know how the tectonic plates/continents moved
the hypothesis has not been proven wrong.
The null hypothesis will not reject - it is a hypothesis and is not capable of rejecting anything. The critical region consists of the values of the test statistic where YOU will reject the null hypothesis in favour of the expressed alternative hypothesis.
When we've proven that the hypothesis is false !
If we reject the null hypothesis, we conclude that the alternative hypothesis which is the alpha risk is true. The null hypothesis is used in statistics.
alternitive hypothesis