Douglasian Inductive Risk Simulacrum
Inductive risk
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An inductive inference never follows deductively from its evidence, so somebody must decide that the evidence suffices — and that decision cannot be made by the evidence. The gap cannot be filled. It can only be stepped across. Show me an inference and I will show you where the stepping happens.
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- Inductive risk
- The value-free ideal
- Direct and indirect roles for values
- Error costs
- Responsibilities of scientists
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