Practice question · Estimate
Of the five research instruments listed, how many produce a result that could contradict the maker's expectation?
Estimate on a scale from 0 instruments (0) to all 5 (5).
Hints
- Ask which of them is an experiment.
- The material test is the one with a result that can come out against you.
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1 (answers within ±0.6 count)
Why
One: the material test. The others gather, record and compare; only the test can return a result that says the plan will not work. That asymmetry is why skipping it is so costly: everything else confirms, and the one instrument that can disconfirm is the one that gets left out.
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