"Oh my gosh, it's a UFO!" This scream came from the backyard of a suburban neighborhood home,
after which several other people came out and agreed that they were all seeing a UFO. As it turns out, there was merely a weather balloon flying high in the sky after it had separated from its tethering cord. This simpler explanation for the sighting of a UFO is consistent with the conceptual principle of
A) Occam's Razor.
B) correlation versus causation.
C) falsifiability.
D) replicability.
Answer: A
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