But these are pretty much the only really testable subjects in a very strict sense.
The presence of such testable hypotheses distinguishes investment from both gambling and government planning.
Now that both firms have been swallowed by TFL, that proposition ought to be testable.
Would you like to see them publish a few testable hypotheses that actually stand up to scrutiny?
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Reformers focus only on testable subjects, primarily math and reading, because accountability has become the golden goose of education reform.
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Something which offers a testable claim about how resources are running out.
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First, climate modelers almost never perform experiments that result in testable hypotheses.
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No, the reason that science progresses despite confirmation bias is partly that it makes testable predictions, but even more that it prevents monopoly.
But, as the X Prize Foundation may soon discover, coming up with a clear, testable and useful challenge in, say, education is tricky.
The deals doubled Amgen's research staff to 4, 000, and the firm has worked to sharpen its focus and lift its output of testable drugs.
Guarente feels that drugs that target SIRT1 might slow aging and have wide effects on other, more testable diseases, such as cancer and heart disease.
M-theory in that its predictions might be testable in future experiments.
Under capitalism power flows to precisely the people who are willing to stake their money not on gambles or sure things but on testable hypotheses, thus generating knowledge and wealth for society.
It is expected to make testable predictions.
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To make the debate on NHS reform comprehensible, and the claims testable against evidence, what we need is some form of baseline scenario that explains the level of productivity improvement needed to keep health costs below double their present cost.
Without more explicit (and testable) details, it is always possible that these benefits would be generated anyway in society, perhaps by religious organizations or the mass media, or that they could be delivered more economically by less fashionable methods, such as reinstituting the draft or spending more money on the police.
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