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In article <1992Oct30.235244.463@black.ox.ac.uk> microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk
(Microsoc) writes:
>As we seem to be on about Popper can anyone answer me this;
>How can you falsify (even in principle) a probabilistic theory, eg QM..?
>
>Marc Read
>

The whole of statistical testing is about falsifying probabilistic theories:

  the null hypothesis is a probabilistic theory
  you reject it by falsifying it

Of course you don't falsify it absolutely, but from the evidence you do
conclude that it's most unlikely (P < epsilon) for the null hypothesis to be
correct.

This is one way how, in practice, people do go about falsifying probabilistic
theories.

Steve Vickers