A good fact to submit is that we can't easily know the exact truth values/parameters of a population. Mostly, population parameters also change slightly by time and/or affected by different surrounding factors. Example: a production line for the 500 ml bottles is assumed to produce a population of bottles such that mean value of bottles capacity is exactly 500 ml. Nice, but what happens in realty? In realty, several factors will mostly affect the production: human factors, machine factors, environment temperature...etc. Also, each new bottle will contribute in the population mean value. This means a continuous slight change, either up or down, of the mean capacity. Here comes the hypothesis! As you see, the ground truth value for population mean is difficult to be exactly determined. However, we have general assumptions/expectations. OK, constructing a hypothesis should always be driven by our initial knowledge and expectations about the population. ...
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