How and When To Think Like a Scientist

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July 26, 2024
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If you hold to the Humean line, why would your value judgments about what’s good or bad for society impact your causal arguments?

32:25: [Robert MacCoun] The role of standards of proof when you’re dealing with probabilistic evidence, you need to weigh two kinds of errors: false positive errors of claiming a hypothesis is true when it’s not, and false negative errors of saying the hypothesis is wrong when in fact it’s true.

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