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As a pivot for the research design, a threshold hypothesis was formulated in Chapter 5 as the point at which the value scale becomes positive or negative. Although this hypothesis is undoubtedly important, it is only one of an infinity of hypotheses that could be tested. The ultimate objective is to arrive at a small plausible subset, composed of hypotheses sufficiently similar to be considered equivalent, and to downgrade all others as implausible.
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Crane, J.A. (1982). Plausible and Implausible Hypotheses. In: The Evaluation of Social Policies. International Series in Social Welfare. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7383-1_9
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