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Behavior Research Methods, 2014 The power fallacy refers to the misconception that what holds on average -across an ensemble of hypothetical experiments- also holds for each case individually. According to the fallacy, high-power experiments always yield more informative data than do low-power experiments.
Wagenmakers, E.-J. +7 more
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On the defence of responsible human judgement in peer review
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract Peer review is essential for scientific progress. When it works well, it combines expertise, fairness, proportionality, skepticism, generosity, and discretion. When it fails, it becomes a theatre for egotistical display, laziness, coercion, and, lately, reliance on artificial intelligence tools. Editors, reviewers, and authors must join forces
João B. P. Soares, Thomas A. Adams II
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A Response to McMurtry's System of Fallacy in the Media
Informal Logic, 1992 In the Fall 1988 issue of Informal Logic, John McMurtry suggests that the current mass communication system "obstructs and deforms our thinking and our reasoning by a general system of deception" (p. 133).
Walter Ulrich
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Nonlinear permuted Granger causality
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract Granger causality is an established, contentious method that seeks causal temporal connections via association and precedence. While not true causal inference, it assists in mapping networks of information flow that may warrant further study.
Noah D. Gade, Jordan Rodu
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Why Fallacies Appear to be Better Arguments Than They Are
Informal Logic, 2010 This paper offers a solution to the problem of understanding how a fallacious argument can be deceptive by “seeming to be valid”, or (better) appearing to be a better argument of its kind than it really is.
Douglas Walton
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Losses and External Outcomes Interact to Produce the Gambler's Fallacy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 When making serial predictions in a binary decision task, there is a clear tendency to assume that after a series of the same external outcome (e.g., heads in a coin flip), the next outcome will be the opposing one (e.g., tails), even when the outcomes ...
Julia A Mossbridge +2 more
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Practice adoption in MNCS: A multi‐level interactionist model of trait activation
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Sharing knowledge through organizational practices is an important source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). While prior research on practice adoption by subsidiaries of MNCs has identified several individual and organizational factors, this study examines their interplay in the context of HQ‐mandated ...
Sven Kunisch +4 more
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ESÎRÜDDİN EL-EBHERÎ’NİN MUĞALATA’YA (SAFSATA) BAKIŞI
İslami İlimler Dergisi, 2010 Sophisme, according to al-Abharî, is a syllogism consisting of incorrect propositions. These propositions are fallacy and deceptive. One approaches these syllogisms to deceive the other people consciously or unconsciously.
Kamil Kömürcü
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Phenomenology & Practice, 2017 Like with so many other everyday things that become extensions of ourselves, we experience the mirror—in that look and see moment—routinely and habitually.
Leslie Robinson
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“The El Greco Fallacy” Fallacy
JAMA Ophthalmology, 2014 To what extent does an artist's work represent his or her perceptual world, and to what extent can attributes of his or her work be ascribed to sensory defects? These issues lie at the center of a conjecture more than a century old, which has been termed the El Greco fallacy.
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