Redeeming Falsifiability?

28 Mar 2023  ·  Mark Whitmeyer, Kun Zhang ·

We revisit Popper's falsifiability criterion. A tester hires a potential expert to produce a theory, offering payments contingent on the observed performance of the theory. We argue that if the informed expert can acquire additional information, falsifiability does have the power to identify worthless theories.

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