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Falsifiability is the most important principle of scientific thinking. It is the capacity for an idea to be proven wrong. When a psychologist tries to explain the cause of a disorder or the effectiveness of a treatment, her explanation must be falsifiable—that is, there must be a way to gather evidence to show that it is incorrect. If a hypothesis cannot be falsified, then it cannot be disproven or rejected based on evidence (Lilienfeld, 2018).