Inductive Reasoning and Diversity Principle/Effect
|

Inductive Reasoning and Diversity Principle/Effect

Byadmin

The strength of inductive reasoning is conditional on many parameters – one of which is the diversity of the observations. We will talk about the diversity principle/effect: More diverse evidence is stronger (in general) than less diverse evidence. Children tend to generalize substantially broadly. If a child has got a new hat, she might think,…