In trying a combination of weapons and power to defeat an enemy, the player's mind goes through the
process of hypothesis testing, which is an important foundation for scientific thinking.
Following the standard
rules of hypothesis testing, he concluded that the alternate hypothesis — the reality of precognition — must therefore be valid.
@David Stern I don't think anyone really understands the classical / frequentist
theory of hypothesis testing because it is fundamentally incoherent.
Once students are confident with the terminology, we create our own courtroom in the classroom and role - play the stages
of hypothesis testing with students acting as the jury, prosecution, judge and defence.
These results suggest that the
nature of hypotheses tested and the logical and methodological rigour employed to test them vary systematically across disciplines and fields, depending on the complexity of the subject matter and possibly other factors (e.g., a field's level of historical and / or intellectual development).
The research hardly conforms to your description of the scientific method: «Scientific findings flourish or fail by the cold, objective, rational method
of hypothesis testing, peer review and replication.»