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    It is not the case that Batson's experimental results do not give reason to prefer the empathy-altruism hypothesis over the aversive-arousal reduction hypothesis.

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    • 1.Both the empathy-altruism hypothesis and the aversive-arousal reduction hypothesis (under the modified assumption that high-empathy subjects believe physical escape won't relieve distress) predict that high-empathy subjects will help in both easy and difficult escape conditions.
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    • 2.When two hypotheses make the same prediction about the same data, that data cannot discriminate between the hypotheses.
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