Book contents
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
- 5 Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
- 6 How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
- 7 Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
- 8 The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
- Part III
- About the Author
- Index
8 - The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
from Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
- 5 Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
- 6 How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
- 7 Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
- 8 The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
- Part III
- About the Author
- Index
Summary
So far, we’ve discussed how common it is for humans to misperceive individual events or groupings of random occurrences. However, a higher level of complexity can occur when one is assessing causal associations; i.e., one thing that appears to cause another.
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- What Science Is and How It Really Works , pp. 208 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019