Buller dedicates several chapters of his book on evolutionary psychology to an examination of hypothesis testing and many of his criticisms center around the introduction of alternate hypotheses that do as good a job, or a better job, of accounting for the data.
In the discussion of De Genesi ad Litteram 10, a version of the sent hypothesis does appear as a serious contender, but it is abruptly dropped without explanation, leaving open the question of what lies behind the sudden omission [O'Connell 1987, pp. 227 9; Mendelson 1995, pp. 242 7].
If the first hypothesis does not hold, as is generally the case for LC MS abundances, which are restricted to positive values, log-transformation can be used to convert the observed abundance distribution into a more symmetric, almost normal distribution.
The authors argue that the information undermining the delusional hypothesis does not present itself as disconfirming evidence to the person with the delusion.
However, simple conventions such like 'owners' always win, are unlikely to be stable (Grafen 1987), and the current consensus is that this hypothesis does not perform well as an explanation of territorial behaviour (Kokko et al. 2006).
It might be argued that the gene dosage hypothesis does apply to phosphofructokinase, as deletion of either PFK1 or PFK2 substantially reduces enzyme activity and fitness (79 – 81) (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material).
The Public Goods hypothesis does not view any tree as being of particular significance as the process of evolution does not follow any particular tree and indeed tree-thinking is an incorrect starting point, likely to conflate explanandum and explanans.
However, faster-male evolution can explain hybrid male sterility, as this hypothesis does not depend on sex determination system.
That is to say, the Whorfian hypothesis does not have to be construed as having to do solely, or even mainly with truth conditions, but rather with human experiences as they are molded by the languages people speak that affect the contexts of their experiences.
But Wright's hypothesis doesn't work.
