The Belief That Explanations Should Remain Simple Until the Simple

question 74

Multiple Choice

The belief that explanations should remain simple until the simple explanations are no longer valid is known as the principle of

• A) variability.
• B) parsimony.
• C) repeated measures.
• D) independent samples.

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