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It may be maintained that the task of a science is to explain the phenomena which lie in the sphere of its interest. An explanation may start with a guess. But how are we to know whether a particular guess is right or wrong? We must test it against observed facts in such a way as to gain independent evidence in favour of the guessed explanation.
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© 1971 T. G. Connolly and W. Sluckin
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Connolly, T.G., Sluckin, W. (1971). The Testing of Hypotheses. In: An Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01226-8_9
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