assumptions (noun)
21scientism — noun The belief that the assumptions, methods of research, etc. of the physical and biological sciences are equally appropriate and essential in all other disciplines including the humanities and the social sciences …
22bunco-steerer — noun A swindler; a cheat or con man. Reef need act as no more than bunco steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party …
23speculation — noun 1 making guesses about sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, intense, much, widespread ▪ further, increasing, renewed ▪ continuing ( …
24paradigm shift — noun a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions …
25guesswork — noun the educated guesswork we rely on in our research Syn: guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumptions, presumptions, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction; approximations, rough calculations; hunches; informal… …
26Kendall test — noun any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑nonparametric statistic, ↑distribution free statistic • Hyponyms: ↑Kendall… …
27nonparametric statistics — noun the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution • Hypernyms: ↑statistics …
28pseudoscience — noun an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions • Hypernyms: ↑fallacy, ↑false belief • Hyponyms: ↑astrology, ↑star divination, ↑alchemy …
29supposal — noun 1. a hypothesis that is taken for granted any society is built upon certain assumptions • Syn: ↑assumption, ↑supposition • Derivationally related forms: ↑suppose, ↑suppositional (for: ↑ …
30Niger–Congo languages — Niger–Congo Niger–Kordofanian (obsolete) Geographic distribution: Sub Saharan Africa Linguistic classification: one of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Dogon …
