Verbal Question (never thought I would do this)

[MedPR]

Usually these questions require reading the whole passage, but this one doesn't.

Rainbows are formed by the reflection and refraction of white light in spherical droplets of water. So, in an attempt to disprove the existence of rainbows, I shot some water into the air but no rainbow ever appears. The answer to the question says that my theory is not testable.

Since when is an simple experiment "not testable"?

Lame.

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[milski]

What is your complain? They are saying that the theory is not testable, not the experiment. Don't you agree with that?

 

[MedPR]

What is your complain? They are saying that the theory is not testable, not the experiment. Don't you agree with that?

If I can develop an experiment to support my theory, why isn't my theory testable?

 

[milski]

If I can develop an experiment to support my theory, why isn't my theory testable?

Your experiment does not support your theory. You need a hypothesis/theory that is falsifiable and an experiment which can prove the falsified theory wrong. Your experiment does not support the theory that rainbows don't exist, it only supports that you could not make one but it is not clear why you did not make it.

Either way, if this is a verbal question, I expect that all that was discussed in the passage in some way. I don't think that any of these details would be expected knowledge for the verbal part.

 

[MedPR]

Your experiment does not support your theory. You need a hypothesis/theory that is falsifiable and an experiment which can prove the falsified theory wrong. Your experiment does not support the theory that rainbows don't exist, it only supports that you could not make one but it is not clear why you did not make it.

Either way, if this is a verbal question, I expect that all that was discussed in the passage in some way. I don't think that any of these details would be expected knowledge for the verbal part.

Yea I guess so. The passage just says that rainbows arise when white light is reflected/refracted through water droplets. Given a situation where you can show that this doesn't occur is not a good enough scientific explanation since you can't test it. Oh well.