在外文文献中,学者们称之为hypothesis。从牛津英汉双解字典来看,它包括两种意思: 1) an idea or explanation of something that is based on a few known facts but that has not yet been proved to be true or correct; 2)guesses and ideas that are not based on certain knowledge. 根据上述解释,我们在实证研究中采用的肯定是hyp…