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The authors examine the pluralism of Barone (1991) through the lens of subsequent developments in the pluralist … demands for evidence to demonstrate student achievement of stated learning goals. This contextual frame opens the door to a …
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The authors examine the pluralism of Barone (1991) through the lens of subsequent developments in the pluralist … demands for evidence to demonstrate student achievement of stated learning goals. This contextual frame opens the door to a …
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As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...
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nature and scope, does not take pluralism seriously, and lacks expertise concentration to ensure quality which means it has … pluralism, the definition and project of heterodox economics, its relationship to the changing form of mainstream, and the merit …
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In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …
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In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …
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In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …
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The difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a hypothesis is proposed to explain … and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the prediction of a hypothesis formulated … before observing the evidence) is investigated. According to Bayesian confirmation theory, accommodated and predicted …
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evidence that the natural science are much more heavily constrained by evidence and observation than by theory while the social … sciences are constrained by prior theory and hardly at all by direct evidence. Current examples of the latter proposition are … tool to constrain the development of a new social science by direct (what economists dismiss as anecdotal) evidence and …
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