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Merely to raise questions, without evidence for a contrary "theory," falls far short of science.
Admitting that odds were against my contrary theory, I expressed a hunch that the perpetrators might well be terrorists "inspired" by Al Qaeda.
Here's a contrary theory, one that says stagflation is no more likely than a revival of disco and bell-bottom pants.
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On the contrary, theory-based prediction implies an understood cause effect relation that, for example, predicts job satisfaction caused by job enrichment and participatory decision making, but only for a limited scope of organizations and employees.
Contrary theories hold that experience happens exclusively within the mind, fragmenting the self into sense, feeling, and desire.
However, contrary to theory, Gale Shapley outperforms Top Trading Cycles and generates the highest efficiency.
Quite the contrary: a theory that cannot be mortally threatened has little value in science.
On the contrary, democratic theory, on its own, should lead us to the opposite expectation.
First, this study showed that formalization could improve both group- and organizational-level innovativeness, which was contrary to theory.
The most significant finding was that formalization improves both group- and organizational-level innovativeness, which is contrary to theory.
Contrary to theory which anticipates that gains can be made mostly on volume, our results indicate that significant revenue gains are available on both margins.
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