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evidence may be judged to shed little light on the situation, period. is
could result from it having low impact and credibility or because it does not
oer any insight into falsication. Evidence of this nature is deemed to have
little “diagnostic value.”
As analysts complete the process, they may nd that some hypotheses
have been falsied, some have been strongly supported, some have been
weakly supported, etc. ey may decide that entirely new hypotheses are
needed and that the process must be repeated. Alternatively, they may decide
that they are condent enough to make tentative conclusions. If the latter is
the case, ...