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Re: Testing a hypothesis
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: January 22, 2007 12:20PM
John:
I would appreciate your input on this subject. What I have read in the science journals and through other research suggest that a hypothesis can only be disproved through testing. It is my belief from these different sources that it is an established hypothesis in the scientific community that all testing of a hypothesis is with the intention of disproving the hypothesis. You may test the hypothesis 50 times and never disprove it, but what about the 51 time. A single test, if confirmed, may disprove a hypothesis but it cannot prove it to be correct. A given series of tests may corroborate the hypothesis, but subsequent experiments under different conditions may disprove it.