Missing Socks and Alien Burglary - Null Hypotheses

In the May 14 conversation with Dr. S, he pointed out that my hypotheses weren't written in a consistent form.  He said that I needed "null" hypotheses.  Oddly (or maybe, fortuitously), I found a website called www.null-hypotheses.co.uk by a group called the Journal of Unlikely Science.  In it, the null hypothesis is explained in comical terms:  What is a Null Hypothesis?  The example is:  the loss of my socks is nothing to do with alien burglary.

So two things to do this long Memorial Day weekend:

1. Rewrite my research problems (tightening up the scope of the ones I've written previously), and
2. Write new hypotheses - ensuring that they are null hypotheses.