falsifiability

Examples of falsifiability in the following topics:

• ANOVA Assumptions

  • The assumption of unit-treatment additivity usually cannot be directly falsified; however, many consequences of unit-treatment additivity can be falsified.

• Psychology and the Scientific Method: From Theory to Conclusion

  • Across all scientific disciplines, the major precepts of the scientific method are verifiability, predictability, falsifiability, and fairness.
  • Falsifiability refers to whether a hypothesis can disproved.
  • For a hypothesis to be falsifiable, it must be logically possible to make an observation or do a physical experiment that would show that there is no support for the hypothesis.
  • It also allows theories to be tested and validated instead of simply being conjectures that could never be verified or falsified.

• Which Methodology is "Correct?"

  • Within modern economics, knowledge is believed to be advanced by inductive or empirical investigations that can verify (or fail to falsify) "positive" concepts, hypothesis, theories or models developed by deductive or rationalist logic.

• Nonlinear Systems of Inequalities

  • One side of the boundary will have points that satisfy the inequality, and the other side will have points that falsify it.

• The Scientific Method

  • It should also be falsifiable, meaning that it can be disproven by experimental results.
  • The presence of the supernatural, for instance, is neither testable nor falsifiable.

• Introduction and Thesis

  • Testability is an extension of falsifiability, a principle indicating that a claim can be proven either true or false.
  • The statement, "all Swedish people have blonde hair" is falsifiable—it could be proven false by identifying a Swede with a different hair color.

• Surveys or Experiments?

  • An experiment is an orderly procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis.

• Transcendentalism

  • According to them, these are principles not based on, or falsifiable by, physical experience, but deriving from the inner spiritual or mental essence of the human.

• Analyzing Data

  • EDA focuses on discovering new features in the data and CDA focuses on confirming or falsifying existing hypotheses.

• Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality

  • Because of the subjective nature of the study, psychologists still worry about the falsifiability of the humanistic approach.