Imagine that you are a marine biologist and you notice that a certain type of crab tends to be considerably smaller in a local bay than the same type of crab is in the water outside the bay. What hypothesis might account for this difference? How would you go about testing this hypothesis?

emerging idea only occurs as a raw idea that could appear out of nowhere. meanwhile, to reach scientific consensus , that idea must be structured and tested over and over again through various experiments. the scientific consensus transforms the raw idea into idea that is more reliable through the process of scientific elimination.

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