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disconfirm /dɪskənˈfəːm /verb [with object]Show that (a belief or hypothesis) is not or may not be true: Cohen may have found evidence disconfirming the hypothesis...- If reality was going to be in such poor form as to disconfirm their belief, they would find a way to make belief and reality match.
- Research validates or disconfirms theory, thereby leading to its refinement and modification.
- It seems that people usually feel no need to question their developing beliefs, and that evidence which might disconfirm them is ignored.
Derivatives disconfirmation /ˌdɪskɒnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ...- But such a belief is hard to maintain and is hence vulnerable to disconfirmation in various ways.
- They misinterpreted data and gave extraordinary significance to confirmations, while ignoring or not seeking disconfirmations.
- Themes are identified and similarities and contradictions emerge in the analysis, with confirmation or disconfirmation of findings supported in subsequent interviews.
disconfirmatory adjective ...- This lack of integration of situational cues into their self-conceptions may account for the maintenance of optimistic self-views in the face of disconfirmatory feedback, such as rejection by peers.
- They gave full attention to confirmatory data, but were unaware of or oblivious to disconfirmatory data.
- We present a new method for extracting, representing and propagating qualitative correlations among hypotheses as confirmatory or disconfirmatory evidence of uncertain reasoning.
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