Premise:
"Using lower cut points for females may maximize screening test performance."
Hypothesis: Females should perform worse if the cut-off points are lowered.

no

Premise:
"Older locals trawler men or dockworkers might lament the loss of Leith's gritty, salt-of-the-earth reputation, but the town has an air of excitement about it."
Hypothesis: Leith is still a very salty place and the dockworkers like it that way.

no

Premise:
"If his theory were true, Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest would have been motivated by a desire to test new oxygen tanks, and Joshua Slocum would have circumnavigated the world in order rack up frequent-sailing miles."
Hypothesis: His theory is a ridiculous one and should not be taken seriously.
yes