Making a hypothesis often ultimately leads to?

A hypothesis often ultimately leads to experimentation.

Explanation:

The scientific method follows some specific steps where the observation of a phenomena leads to a hypothesis that explains how and why this phenomenon happens, in order to confirm this hypothesis the next step is the process of experimentation to generate results, which will demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis.

i'm thinking it would be when compound subjects are joined by or, nor,either-or, neither-nor.