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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disconfirm .
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When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of "disconfirmed" expectations producing counterintuitive results:
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of "disconfirmed" expectations producing counterintuitive results:
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of "disconfirmed" expectations producing counterintuitive results:
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Depending upon specific combinations of positive and negative findings that emerge over experiments, specific hypotheses can be confirmed or disconfirmed, ruled in or ruled out.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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It could be confirmed if Designer appears one day and demonstrates His power or it could be disconfirmed by the OOL researchers.
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Personally, I think that plan is crazy, in that it relies on a model of voter sentiment we know has repeatedly been disconfirmed in the real world.
Matthew Yglesias » Raul Grijalva Flirting With History’s Greatest Monster Status 2010
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In his classic book When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of “disconfirmed” expectations producing counterintuitive results:
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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In his classic book When Prophecy Fails, Festinger used the example of millennial cults in the days after the prophesied moment of reckoning as an illustration of “disconfirmed” expectations producing counterintuitive results:
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Depending upon specific combinations of positive and negative findings that emerge over experiments, specific hypotheses can be confirmed or disconfirmed, ruled in or ruled out.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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It could be confirmed if Designer appears one day and demonstrates His power or it could be disconfirmed by the OOL researchers.
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