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	Bekräftande forskning	Hypotesprövande forskning – konfirmativ kvantitativ design
Ämnesområde	Forskningsdesign	Forskningsdesign
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1934 (Popper); widely adopted in social sciences from 1960s onward	Early 20th century (Fisher 1925; Neyman–Pearson 1933)
Upphovsperson	Karl Popper (falsificationism); formalized in behavioral sciences by Paul Meehl and others	Karl Pearson, Ronald A. Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, Egon Pearson
Typ	Quantitative research design	Quantitative confirmatory research design
Ursprungskälla	Popper, K. R. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson. ISBN: 978-0415278447	Kerlinger, F. N., & Lee, H. B. (1986). Foundations of Behavioral Research (3rd ed.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 978-0030417603
Alias	hypothesis-testing research, deductive research, theory-testing research, confirmatory study	hypothetico-deductive research, confirmatory quantitative research, null hypothesis significance testing, NHST design
Närliggande	4	4
Sammanfattning	Confirmatory research is a deductive quantitative design in which the researcher specifies hypotheses derived from existing theory before data collection, then tests whether the data support or refute those hypotheses. Unlike exploratory approaches that generate ideas from data, confirmatory research begins with an established theoretical framework, pre-registers predictions, and applies statistical tests to evaluate those predictions against empirical evidence. It is the backbone of hypothesis-driven social, behavioral, and health science inquiry.	Hypothesis testing research is a quantitative design in which the investigator derives one or more explicit, falsifiable propositions from theory, translates them into a null hypothesis (H0) and an alternative hypothesis (H1), collects empirical data, and then applies an inferential statistical test to decide whether the evidence is sufficient to reject H0. The approach is the dominant paradigm for confirmatory science across the social, behavioral, health, and natural sciences.