The Gap Effect revisted; seven wrong explanations and two possibly right ones

When wrong predictions provide more support than right ones.

Correct predictions of rare events are normatively more supportive of a theory or hypothesis than correct predictions of common ones. In other words, correct bold predictions provide more support than do correct timid predictions. Are lay hypothesis testers sensitive to the boldness of predictions? Results reported here show that participants were very sensitive to boldness, often finding incor...

Why Quantum Theory is Possibly Wrong

Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination. The latter, however, is largely overlooked as a genuine problem of its own. Both problems concern the doctrine of realism, but pull, quite curiously, into opposite directions. The measurement problem can ...

enjoying the right and forbidding the wrong in criminal policy

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Critical Study of Right to be wrong From the point of view ofcollectivists, utilitarians, and virtuosos

circuit right discourse is one of the most common theories in the contemporary period about regulating human social relations. The formation of this course of thought and the exhibition of a unidimensional understanding of the concept of right in the West is the result of socio-political changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was during this period that thinkers’ response to th...

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