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
7 - Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
from Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
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
Summary
Who wouldn’t like to make some extra money? And if you have some money to invest, who wouldn’t like to invest it wisely? But does any financial expert have a strategy that can consistently result in higher returns than the simple market average; i.e., an active investing strategy that can do better than just buying an index fund across a financial sector and then leaving it alone? Basically, is there anyone who can “beat the market”?
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- What Science Is and How It Really Works , pp. 185 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019