Explain Karl Popper's principle of falsification or falsifiability.

What will be an ideal response?


To be scientific, a theory must lead to testable hypotheses that can be disproved if they are wrong.

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a. ethnocentric theory b. functionalist theory c. labeling theory d. contact theory

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a. men b. women c. men and women equally d. children

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