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Heather Douglas
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Douglas examines the consequences of error in scientific judgment. Inductive risk concerns acceptable uncertainty, not replacing evidence with a preferred social result.
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 77
How does a scientific account earn trust?
Popper asks what would count against a theory, and Kuhn describes normal science and its revolutions. Heather Douglas shows how weighing the costs of error differs from substituting values for evidence.