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Tinbergen cautioned that observation and description should be the foundation for the formulation of hypotheses, but this has not always been the case. Unfortunately many young investigators today have the impression that descriptive studies are a waste of effort and money. They have been told that hypothesis testing is where the action is. and if you are not testing hypotheses, your interests and efforts are surely misguided or at the very least outmoded. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and Lorenz (1973) said it best when he referred to the trend as the "fashionable fallacy of dispensing with description." There can be no debate about the importance of testing hypotheses, but this phase of scientific endeavor should be predicated on strong underpinnings of observation, description, and discovery. Hypotheses should not be based on unfounded assumptions.^[1]

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