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Falsifiability and Information Content

Example:

Consider the discrete mesh (above) and the two hypotheses;

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Problem: Assess the information content of these two alternative hypotheses (previous page) by generating a sequence of binary (YES/NO) questions, letting each subsequent answer lead to a new question.

Answer:

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Note: The second hypothesis is more falsifiable than the first, and the degree of falsifiability, in this case, is equal to the information gained if the hypothesis is shown not to be false.}



David T J Liley
Thu Mar 19 10:16:41 EST 1998