Why is hypothesis-testing unable to prove a theory?
a. Rival explanations or theories may offer a different explanation for the same research finding.
b. Inferential statistics used in testing hypotheses are only probabilistic.
c. Since hypotheses are falsifiable, they can never prove a theory.
d. a & b
e. b & c
Answer d,
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