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Facts serve to sort out good and bad hypotheses

Explain the statement: “Facts serve to sort out good and bad hypotheses.”?

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To test a hypothesis, economists must subject it to systematic and repeated comparison with relevant facts. If real-world data confirm the hypothesis repeatedly, we have a good theory, otherwise it must be discarded and a new hypothesis developed.

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