For the logical fallacy of believing that a hypothesis has been proved true, mer

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For the logical fallacy of believing that a hypothesis has been proved true, merely because it is not contradicted by the available facts, has no more right to insinuate itself in statistics than in other kinds of scientific reasoning, ... It would, therefore, add greatly to the clarity with which the tests of significance are regarded if it were generally understood that tests of significance, when used accurately, are capable of rejecting or invalidating hypotheses, in so far as they are contradicted by the data; but dial they are never capable of establishing them as certainly true. In your own words, explain what this quotation means.

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Let us consider the Newtons law of gravitation this model worked pretty well for atleast 250 years, within those 250 years we never encountered a problem as everything which we could see was acting the way which was predicted by the equations that newton proposed and his law was considered pretty amazing, as it was explaining everything that we saw (but we did'nt see everything) later in 1895-1905 when physist saw the solar eclipse they were able to spot gravitational lensing which could not be explained by newtons law of gravition and so einstiens theory relativity was developed. moral of the story is when we develop a theory that is able to explain the data it is not the end of the chapter it takes just one observation that is deviant from your theory to be rejected.

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