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BRWH

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A researcher who attributes all successes to his treatment but then attributes all failures to another factor has violated which essential criterion for acceptable hypotheses?
 
  a. falsifiability
  b. testability
  c. coherence and parsimony
  d. correspondence with reality

Question 2

Steve hypothesizes that some behaviors are due to one's astrological sign. Steve's hypothesis most likely violates which criterion for acceptable hypotheses?
 
  a. correspondence with reality
  b. falsifiability
  c. coherence
  d. parsimony



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

a



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