Evaluating everyday explanations
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Evaluating everyday explanations.
People frequently rely on explanations provided by others to understand complex phenomena. A fair amount of attention has been devoted to the study of scientific explanation, and less on understanding how people evaluate naturalistic, everyday explanations. Using a corpus of diverse explanations from Reddit's "Explain Like I'm Five" and other online sources, we assessed how well a variety of ex...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1258-z