The Fallacy of Ratios and the Testability of Models in Biology

1 February 1999

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Oikos

Vol. 84 (2) , 321
https://doi.org/10.2307/3546729

Abstract

Biological hypotheses framed in terms of ratios of measured variables run the risk of being untestable. Such avoidance of empirical verification results from a ...

Keywords

TESTABILITY
FRAMED
BIOLOGY BIOLOGICAL
FALLACY OF RATIOS
MODELS
UNTESTABLE
EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION

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