First, they need to rule out alternate explanations for disturbances that seem paranormal but may be prosaic.
"The difficulty had been that when you have indirect evidence, there are always alternate explanations that might fit the data".
The government's spokespeople have cited this finding as proof of a media conspiracy.However, Latinobarómetro itself offered a number of alternate explanations for its findings.
"But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations".
This is still a fairly primitive use of the technology; once GEN has learned where students go wrong, it plans to videotape the professor offering a series of alternate explanations of the same material, so that a student can be directed along any one of several different pathways to help him or her grasp what wasn't clear the first time around.
He called the government's case an attempt to "rewrite history," and promised to present alternate explanations for treasured coins coming legitimately into the Langbords' hands: the mint commonly exchanged coins for gold, he said, and the cashier of the mint kept an "open bag" of 1933 double eagles near his desk.
The authors take this as evidence that when bad things happen, people turn to crime.But there are alternate explanations for the phenomenon: women who have children with felons may turn out to be slightly lacking in good judgement; this might affect their behaviour while pregnant.
"You have to consider alternate explanations, like 'witch curing.' ".
Alternate explanations for higher weekly physical activity volumes among those randomized to RAS may have existed.
Throughout the supplement, students are asked to develop explanations and evaluate alternate explanations in light of evidence they have gathered.
In this genre, however, alternate explanations are rarely explored in any detail, much less shown to be inferior.
