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EVIDENCE - Coggle Diagram
EVIDENCE
definitions
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selection effect: a fator that selects which observations are available to us makes our evidence unreliable if we are aware of it
TESTS
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first rule of evidence if we get more evidence for H, we shield be more confident in H
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selective noticing: we tend to notice confirming instances and ignore other instances which disconfirm
media selection bias: if something bad happened to someone else I should worry that it might happen to me
measures of centrality
when thinking about a group of people we are interested what's they're typically like, or what they are like on average
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good for heights/ weights, death by disease, income levels
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PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONAL INK when a shaded area region is used to rep a number value , the area should correspond to the value
SAMPLES
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LAWS
LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS" larger the sample the more likely its proportions closely reflect the pop as a whole
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inductive arguments
when we have inconclusive evidence for a hypothesis H, we should be more confident that H is true
when our inconclusive evidence sound make us more confident than not that H is true, we have an inductively strong argument for H
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counter evidence
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if added to an inductive argument , it will weaken their inductive strength
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