When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of "disconfirmed" expectations producing counterintuitive results: ❋ Unknown (2011)
Depending upon specific combinations of positive and negative findings that emerge over experiments, specific hypotheses can be confirmed or disconfirmed, ruled in or ruled out. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
Thus it's not that Darwinism has been falsified or disconfirmed, but that we simply don't know enough about the biological system in question and its historical context to determine how the Darwinian mechanism might have produced it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Personally, I think that plan is crazy, in that it relies on a model of voter sentiment we know has repeatedly been disconfirmed in the real world. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In his classic book When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of “disconfirmed” expectations producing counterintuitive results: ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)
If he spouts some nonsense about how natural systems all need to conform to the kinds of yes-or-no experiments that are available for certain kinds of inquiries, then you need to tell your son to consult a few more practicing scientists than theoretical physicists — who in some ways are quite fortunate in terms of the ability to come up with exquisitely beautiful, yet very precise theories which may be experimentally confirmed or disconfirmed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fear of shame, humiliation and other crushing reactions is disconfirmed and replaced by a loving response. ❋ Joseph Bobrow (2011)
It could be confirmed if Designer appears one day and demonstrates His power or it could be disconfirmed by the OOL researchers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even when presented with visual evidence showing that rewards had an adverse effect on performance on reading, our subjects were not able to override their preconceptions and saw a positive relation even when the data disconfirmed their expectations. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"The doubts that some expressed that students would get bored with a single topic ... seem to have been disconfirmed," he wrote in an e-mail. ❋ Post (2010)
As a result, to many Americans, "global warming" is disconfirmed every time there's a cold spell. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Dude: "[Why me], man?"
[Brandt]: "He believes the [culprits] might be the very people who, uh, soiled your rug, and you are in a unique position to confirm or disconfirm that suspicion." ❋ CartoonChess (2008)
