ABSTRACT
The theory's extrinsic part identifies the kinds of data needed to test the theorems, and the test procedure is given by the formal mode that was used to state the theory. Six steps were taken in the tests. These include: the selection of countries; application of referential formulas to the requisite kind of data; linking sets of referents to particular theorems through epistemic statements; deducing hypotheses from theorems and epistemic statements, each hypothesis about the association between two particular sets of referents. These also include: computing instances of the prescribed measure of association and reporting it in a descriptive statement, as the basis for accepting or rejecting the corresponding hypothesis; and assessing the congruence of hypotheses and descriptive statements. Given the theory's scope, the report of tests may appear inordinately brief, and all the more so because the chapter extends to comments on methodological considerations that transcend the theory.
