[Heartlogic-dev] Re: statistics #2

[William L. Jarrold]

Right.  A good hypothesis is one which is falsifiable.  Freud is often
attacked as a knee jerk example of a non-falsifiable hypothesis.

Bill

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> This is how science should work: Hypotheses followed to their logical
> conclusions, and accepted, modified, or rejected as determined by the
> agreement of experimental data to those conclusions.
>
> What makes a scientific hypothesis is the prediction of future
> experimental data yet uncollected, and the possibility of disproof as a
> result of that data.  To boldly follow a hypothesis to its logical
> conclusion(s) and dare to predict the results of future experiments is a
> public test of that hypothesis, open to challenge from anyone able to
> produce contradictory data.
>
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>