Biology / Unit 1 Bio 0017 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Falsifiability
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The idea
A hypothesis is falsifiable when some possible experimental result could show it to be false.
In practice
"Loosening the soil will not change the wilting" is a result the compacted-soil hypothesis must survive to stand.
Where people slip
Science never claims to prove a hypothesis true beyond revision; it claims only that this one survived an honest chance to fail.
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