This formed a critical case to compare, using pattern matching logic, to the common prescription for local implementation of best evidence and a rival explanation drawn from complexity sciences interpreted through modern sociology and psychology.
Beliefs are an integral part of the process, not a rival explanation.
There is a rival explanation.
If the timing of the intervention is not clearly defined, the possibility that its effects have a rival explanation increases.
A rival explanation is simple citation bias, such that authors from one geographical region are simply more likely to cite authors from the same region.
The fact that he can for a time be an exceptionally good friend makes the subsequent rejection even worse.A rival explanation for the loathing of Mandelson invokes political rather than personal style.
A repeating gamma-ray burst would allow astronomers to eliminate some of the rival explanations for these events.
[Echoing what John Cochrane had told me, Murphy explained that there were two rival explanations for big movements in asset prices: attitudes to risk that vary over time, which are consistent with an efficient-market equilibrium, or irrational exuberance and bubbles, which aren't.] Empirically, I don't see how you can distinguish between the two.
Fourth, rival explanations for outcomes involving limited user involvement, indicate that competitive advantages were achieved through maintaining dominant financial and intellectual property positions.
Philosophers being a quarrelsome group, lots of rival explanations have been offered for what's going on, leading to new rounds of experiments.
