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disconfirmation [diskon′fərmā′shən] a dysfunctional communication that negates, discounts, or ignores information received from another person. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Our engagement with them," Podro adds, "involves a continuous adjustment as we scan them for suggestions on how to proceed and for confirmation or disconfirmation of our response. Whereas social historians appear to prefer leaving their reading scenarios and models implicit so as to appear objective and free of interpretive constraints, social-scientific critics make their theory and models explicit so as to allow for assessment and theory confirmation or disconfirmation. A scientific prediction, in short, must be specific enough to expose the prediction to the "possibility of disconfirmation. |
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