Two important characteristics of a hypothesis are that it should be testable and that it should be stated in a manner that it can be refuted. Which one of the following hypotheses, fulfils these characteristics ?

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Q: 135 (IAS/1996)
Two important characteristics of a hypothesis are that it should be testable and that it should be stated in a manner that it can be refuted.
Which one of the following hypotheses, fulfils these characteristics ?

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

IAS

stats: 

0,10,12,10,6,3,3

keywords: 

{'hypotheses': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'hypothesis': [0, 1, 0, 4], 'important characteristics': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'characteristics': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'intelligent persons': [0, 1, 0, 0]}