Voorbeelden van falsifying

• People would not want to jeopardise their livelihood by falsifying their reports or by fiddling with the coupons, or so the logic went.

• The former, after seeing the outcome, seek a reinterpretation of what constitutes an appropriate test; the latter seek new falsifying outcomes.

• Sources and communications transmitting negative ("falsifying") information may be doubted, rejected, or simply ignored.

• But to take this to the extreme by falsifying the truth to please oppressors was the obverse of decency.

• The same logic applies if a falsifying outcome is rejected because the subjects were insufficiently sophisticated.

• Consequently, all falsifying outcomes can be dismissed by arguing that it is the auxiliary hypotheses, not the theory, that must be rejected.

• Obviously testing only parts of a complex theory increases the chances of ' falsifying' it.

• Past knowledge is continually tested through practice, falsifying what does not work and sustaining what does.

• The authors focus not on falsifying hypotheses, but instead, on finding consistency with hypotheses, and they advocate flexible hypotheses that can be adjusted to accommodate results.

• In some cases they contradicted statements that they had made to the police and in other cases it was obvious that they were falsifying written records.

• Taking seriously the last, most ubiquitous objection to falsifying evidence, there are only two interpretations: (1) the theory cannot be falsified; (2) the theory has no predictive content.

• More emphatically, there is no evidence presented falsifying the confirming evidence that might lead to the theory being modified, or perhaps abandoned for an entirely new theory.

• How can one save daylight by falsifying the clocks?

• She claims that they included falsifying records and criminal malicious intent.

• They should be seen as a way of avoiding fraud with respect to banana origin, and the risks of falsifying the repetition of import quantities.