Hey, that might be true, but I'm going to have to hear some examples before I start accepting such slander against my good name, missy.
[ mockingly stern: it's very obvious he's not actually offended. ]
It's scientific theory: you start with an observation, in this case — Peter Parker is silly, then you ask a question (how is Peter Parker silly?), then you form a hypothesis which — I could give an example, but I feel like I'd be supporting my own character assassination, but for an unrelated example, maybe your hypothesis is Peter Parker holds very strong opinions about what counts as a schmear of cream cheese on a bagel.
Then you come up with a prediction - a testable theory, which in this case might be: if I give Peter a bagel which has more or less than a schmear, he's going to be mildly offended; if I give him a bagel which has an exact schmear, he's going to be happy and say nothing. Testing this would be providing Peter Parker with a variety of bagels with different amounts of cream cheese, some of which definitely do count as schmears, and some of which are definitely not and subsequently offensive to the name of bagels everywhere.
If Peter says nothing about any of the bagels, your hypothesis is unsupported and incorrect. If Peter does complain about the non-schmeared bagels, your hypothesis is supported and therefore likely correct.
1/2 i'm sorry
[ mockingly stern: it's very obvious he's not actually offended. ]
It's scientific theory: you start with an observation, in this case — Peter Parker is silly, then you ask a question (how is Peter Parker silly?), then you form a hypothesis which — I could give an example, but I feel like I'd be supporting my own character assassination, but for an unrelated example, maybe your hypothesis is Peter Parker holds very strong opinions about what counts as a schmear of cream cheese on a bagel.
Then you come up with a prediction - a testable theory, which in this case might be: if I give Peter a bagel which has more or less than a schmear, he's going to be mildly offended; if I give him a bagel which has an exact schmear, he's going to be happy and say nothing. Testing this would be providing Peter Parker with a variety of bagels with different amounts of cream cheese, some of which definitely do count as schmears, and some of which are definitely not and subsequently offensive to the name of bagels everywhere.
If Peter says nothing about any of the bagels, your hypothesis is unsupported and incorrect. If Peter does complain about the non-schmeared bagels, your hypothesis is supported and therefore likely correct.