There are fields where hypotheses are like metal brackets with holes. If they don't line up with the data, the bracket must be discarded and another must be sought. Hypotheses in other fields are more like big lumps of clay which can be endlessly remolded as new data arrives.
Critics: 'Evolutionary psychology hypotheses can't be falsified'
Every evolutionary psychologist speaking at #HBES2019: 'Our data did not support some of our hypotheses, and did support others, and here's what we learned'
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Are there YouTubes?
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Please stop making so much sense. It chafes the narrative to the point of road burn.
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You’re accepting their framework of “falsificationism”. Mathematics can’t be falsified by experiment either, yet it’s a valid branch of inquiry.
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Mathematics is not a science. It is a study of abstracted interwoven relations and regularities
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Its not merely *that* some researchers will say data don't support some hypotheses, but also *why* they say it, that is relevant to falsifiability.
Were the hypotheses stated rigorously? Were there actual tests of the hypotheses? Or just "data".
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statement of "the data do not support our hypothesis" is not an admission that the hypothesis has been rejected, and that "the data
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