Your text describes Thought Field Therapy (TFT) which claims to be a treatment for anxiety. The treatment includes tapping on body parts in order to release 'energy blockages' that practitioners claim cause anxiety. Researchers have pointed out that any effect of TFT could be due to other aspects of the treatment, rather than the tapping. This example is most related to what principle of critical thinking?

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Ruling out rival hypotheses involves considering alternative explanations for a phenomenon and eliminating them one by one to arrive at the most likely explanation. In this case, researchers have pointed out that any effect of TFT could be due to other aspects of the treatment, rather than the tapping technique itself, indicating the need to rule out alternative explanations.

Your Text Describes Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Which Claims to Be