Your textbook discusses the issue of facilitated communication and its applicability to assisting children with autism
One possibility for the early research results was that the children were communicating through the adults who were assisting them. As the book notes, a simpler explanation for the miraculous findings was that the "facilitators" were simply guiding the hands of the children to communicate things that their parents would want to hear. This simpler explanation is consistent with the concept of
A) replicability.
B) Occam's Razor.
C) falsifiability.
D) correlation versus causation.
Answer: B
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