Perhaps you aren't understanding something about how deductive theories work. You have to assume that a deductive theory is correct before you can attempt to draw facts from it. With a hypothesis, you are merely trying to predict the outcome of an experiment.
Here is an example that clarifies the difference
Deductive Theory: "Memory goes through short term, then working, then into long term memory. From this model, we can deduce that doing X, Y, and Z will increase memory."
Hypothesis: "If we present a rat with sugar food pellets, it will perform more lever presses per hour compared to normal food pellets."
The real difference between those two is that one is testable and does not rely on an untestable assumption and the other is reliant on the assumption that the model is correct.
Asher Johnson
they both seem like fine hypotheses to me you have to test them Well I guess you could say the first one is a theory but you can still take a hypothesis from that and test it no problemo
Angel Jackson
You get a positive result for the first one. Does it actually prove that your theory is correct? No, it doesn't. It merely fails to disprove it. Did your experiment work because your model is accurate or is it because of some other reason? Is the model even a necessary assumption?
The other way is much better. You take the results from a plethora of experiments and form theories from that.
Jordan Bailey
Sorry user but there is evidence that Quantum mechanics is involved and thus the role of environment maybe bigger than what some might have expected.
This entire thread was pre-determined by physical causes and biological programming encoded by nucleic acids whose existences is determined upon other natural causes and those causes are determined by preceding causes and so on to infinity.
Aaron Powell
look at it this way: a person 1000 years from now will have different abilities than you purely because of his environment. the nature vs nurture "debate" is retarded though -- it is obvious that both are factors and that there are traits where one predominates (e.g. height, knowledge of german literature)
