I cannot accept this as an always-preferable explanation, when it does not matter what these events are and how are they counted; in a moderate form, however, we can use parsimony as a criterion of selecting the null hypothesis, i.e., "choose the scenario with the smallest number of events, unless the additional evidence suggests that a more complex scenario has to be considered".
Third, one might argue that the relative merits of the miraculous and non-miraculous explanations have been improperly assessed and that, rightly considered, one or more of the non-miraculous explanations is actually preferable as an explanation of the facts in question.
With investors already nervous, the excuse that complying with the rule would cost too much is preferable to an explanation that the reported losses would be too high.
However, taking into consideration that the high selective pressure could be implemented only in the case of functional importance of the PyrTriTy3-2 or NecHaemTy3-4, HT looks more preferable for the explanation of the described case.
But this would imply that the shallow explanations of classical genetics are objectively preferable to the deeper explanations provided by the molecular theory (Waters 1990).
"People think the worst environmental explanation is preferable to the best innatist explanation," he says.
Other things being equal, it is generally accepted that a simpler explanation is preferable to a more complex one [ 9].
Such omissions are understandable; neither concept was mentioned at length by service users or carers within focus groups, and a concise explanation may be preferable.
Older students should learn that, like religion, scientific rationalism is also a belief system -- a belief that testable and simpler explanations are always preferable.
This explanation of the results is preferable over the assumption that most of the cells in the sum1Δ strain are stuck in a middle meiosis stage, since this strain can complete sporulation and form normal looking asci.
