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Hypothesis task presentation
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- 2. To gather other people’s opinions through questionnaires. To gather information to prove or disprove their hypothesis.
- 3. A hypothesis is a statement which is used as a research point which at the end is either proved or disproved depending on the research you have collected.
- 4. You need to pick one of the following hypothesis and carry out research to prove or disprove it. You need to collect research through the different techniques we have looked at: ◦ Questionnaires ◦ Internet ◦ Magazines/ Newspapers ◦ Interviews With the information create a poster with facts and key points on and say whether your hypothesis was proved or disproved.
- 5. Everybody over 12 owns a mobile phone. Mobile phones are dangerous to peoples health. People older than 50 don't watch TV. Only 5% of people will recycle at home. Or create your own.
- 6. Keywords A keyword search will allow the user to carry out a search that will look for documents and websites that contain one or more of the specified words.
- 7. Wildcards This searchinvolves the use of symbols ‘?’ and ‘*’ to replace individual letters, or sequences of letters. This is useful when you do not know how to spell the word. ◦ ? - You can use a question mark to replace a single character. ◦ * - You can use a asterisk to represent several characters, or ‘zero’ characters. Zero characters gives you the option of looking for a character that may or not be there.
- 8. Advanced Searches When using an advanced search this allows you to narrow down your results through providing the search engine with more information about what it is you are exactly looking for. Google Advanced search.
- 9. Hits Hits on a search engine are the number of results which the website finds based on your search. Using different search techniques will help you to reduce the number of hits you get. The least hits you get the more relevant your search is.