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Marianne makes an educated guess that children who enter school having had no preschool exposure will have underdeveloped social skills that will need extra attention. This is an example of a predictive hypothesis.
What Marianne is doing is to take a guess based on her previous experience in educational environments. Although a predictive hypothesis does not guarantee anything because it does not provide hard facts, it serves as a reference due to the background of the individual in certain fields of study. It could include a projection, a forecast, or a probable scenario, according to the conditions presented in the past.
