Expert: Dan Smith - 12/5/2004

Question
How do you write a Hypothesis with out using first person.

Answer
Do not use a first-person pronoun in the hypothesis. Generally speaking, personal pronouns of any sort do not normally have a place in a formal research hypothesis. Since I have no idea about the subject of your research, I can't suggest something very close, but I'll try to give a useful example. Let's assume that your research has to do with the effect of two different kinds of cattle feed (food A and food B) on dairy production. Here's a possible hypothesis:

Dairy cows that are fed Food A will produce more milk than cows that are fed Food B.

That's the research hypothesis. The null hypothesis, which is what you would test against using statistical analysis would be:

There will be no statistically significant differences in milk production between groups of dairly cows that are fed Food A and Food B.

Note that there is no reference whatever to the researcher in either version. A reference to yourself as a researcher is what would turn a hypothesis into first person.

Hope this helps.