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34The goodness of judgment indexBehavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (3): 344-345. 2004.Evidence is presented indicating that mainstream social psychology material leads undergraduates to conclude that people are irrational. To help address the problems identified by Krueger & Funder (K&F), a new statistic, the Goodness of Judgment Index (GJI), is presented. A concrete example based on a recent study is used to show how the GJI can be used to bring some balance back to research emphasizing error and bias.
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93Causal condition, causal asymmetry, and the counterfactual analysis of causationSynthese 67 (2). 1986.In a recent paper Causal Asymmetry, Douglas Ehring has proposed an intriguing solution to the vexing problem of causal asymmetry. The aim of this paper is to show that his theory is not satisfactory. Moreover, the examples that I use in showing the defect of Ehring's theory also indicate that the counterfactual analysis of causation has a problem that cannot be remedied by Marshall Swain's suggested refinement of the counterfactual analysis of causation in Causation and Distinct Events.
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239Wang Yang-Ming, Chu hsi, and the investigation of thingsPhilosophy East and West 37 (1): 24-35. 1987.