James claims that he can read minds, but he refuses to tell anyone what he has learned so there is no way to test whether his claim is true or false. Which of the six principles of scientific thinking best describes this situation?
a. Ruling out rival hypotheses
b. Correlation versus Causation
c. Falsifiability
d. Occam's razor
Answer: c. Falsifiability
Psychology
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An organization of I/O psychologists put together a large number of psychologists to pool data from many companies in an investigation of worker job satisfaction and productivity
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