"But they're very useful for generating interesting hypotheses."

From this information one can generate new hypotheses about biology or test existing ones.

Religion is not the study of ethics, natural science, philosophy or astronomy and cannot generate informed hypotheses on these topics.

Such descriptive studies do not at this time use health control groups and can only generate hypotheses,but not test them.

That is, the purpose of case studies is said by some researchers to be to generate hypotheses rather than to test or confirm them.

You may generate hypotheses that aren't in the hard data yet, but that doesn't mean this is the same thing as reading tea leaves.

It is perfectly possible to generate hypotheses by rational thought alone.

Exploratory research is often used to generate formal hypotheses.

The term ensemble is usually reserved for methods that generate multiple hypotheses using the same base learner.

Once the problem is defined, the analyst is able to generate reasonable hypotheses based on the question.