Book chapter
Doing the Impossible: A Note on Induction and the Experience of Randomness
Experimental Design in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
SAGE
2013
Abstract
The process of induction is formulated as a problem in detecting nonrandomness or pattern against a background of randomness or noise. The first section of the article describes the experimental approaches that have been taken to evaluate the rationality of human conceptions of randomness. The second section con- trasts the narrow conceptions of randomness implicit in this experimental lit- erature with the broader and less well agreed upon conceptions of randomness in philosophy and mathematics. The third section discusses the relation between induction and the experience of randomness in terms of signal detection theory. And the fourth section argues that an adequate evaluation of human conceptions of randomness must consider the role those conceptions play in inductive in- ference.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Doing the Impossible: A Note on Induction and the Experience of Randomness
- Creators
- Lola Lopes
- Contributors
- Sandra Schneider (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Experimental Design in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Publisher
- SAGE; London
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984963079302771
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