Vol , Issue Date of Publication: September 22, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2017.033

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“Trust the researchers”: flying in the face of evidence

John H Noble Jr
Abstract:
There are always rival hypotheses to explain away the one that is posited as the most likely to be true. Context and Occam's razor – the principle that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected – ultimately point to which hypothesis is the most likely to be true.


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