Falsifiability

Falsifiability is the assertion that for any hypothesis to have credence, it must be inherently disprovable before it can become accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory.

It doesn’t mean that you have to prove it’s wrong, but you have to be able to prove whether it is wrong or not.

• For Popper, that’s what differentiates Science from Pseudo-science (at the time he talked about [[ Albert Einstein ]] vs. [[ Sigmund Freud ]])
• Science makes predictions that can be proven wrong (falsifiable)
  • Using data to make future predictions
• Pseudo-science uses past data to explain the present
  • You can fit your beliefs into the data to confirm your existence
  • You can always find data to confirm a point
• For Popper, Science disconfirms a hypothesis, while pseudo-science confirms theories

Created on: 2020-10-13 Inspired by: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Xfl0JdTQ&ab_channel=CrashCourse Related: [[ Nassim Taleb ]] | [[ Karl Popper ]] | Decision-Making [[ Confirmation Bias ]] | [[ Naval ]]