A hypothesis is a statement about a characteristic or a property of a population. It can be stated as a claim or an idea about some pattern or phenomenon. A hypothesis is different from a prediction as the hypothesis is a general claim, while a prediction hints toward an exact cause and effect. The hypothesis is also different from an assumption, which could be a known property of the population that may provide a framework for hypothesis testing. Consider the statement, 'Red roses attract honeybees.' This is a hypothesis. In contrast, the statement 'if there are twice the number of red roses, there would be twice the number of honeybees' is considered a prediction. Finally, 'honeybees are attracted to all red hues or all sizes of roses equally' is an assumption. A hypothesis is considered incorrect when it states something that happens by chance alone or when the probability of occurrence is infinitesimally small. In statistics, a hypothesis is often stated probabilistically to simplify the process of hypothesis testing.