On Inequality and Health, Again: A Response to Bernburg, and Barford, Dorling and Pickett  

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Johnston, Ron ; Jen, Min-Hua ; Jones, Kelvyn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 70 no. 4 (Feb. 2010), page 498-500.
Topik: Multi-level Modelling; Self-rated Health; Income Inequality Hypothesis; World Values Survey; Household-income Inequality Estimation; Health Inequalities

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According to a critical rationalist view of science, a hypothesis can never be proven true, but it can be falsified. Experiments/tests that produce results consistent with the hypothesis can only enhance the circumstantial evidence supporting the argument; a single critical test is sufficient to refute it. Of course, one such test will rarely, as Barford, Dorling, Pickett express it in this issue - 'put a final nail in the [hypothesis's] coffin', but it necessarily raises quaries that have to be addressed; why the negative findings, especially if they follow a lot of studies that have sustained the hypothesis?

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