Chess Masters' Hypothesis Testing
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Cowley, M., Byrne, R. M. J., Chess Masters' Hypothesis Testing, Proceedings of the Twenty- Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Rogers, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004, 250 - 255Download Item:
Abstract:
Falsification may demarcate science from non-science as the
rational way to test the truth of hypotheses. But experimental
evidence from studies of reasoning shows that people often
find falsification difficult. We suggest that domain expertise
may facilitate falsification. We consider new experimental
data about chess experts? hypothesis testing. The results show
that chess masters were readily able to falsify their plans. They
generated move sequences that falsified their plans more
readily than novice players, who tended to confirm their plans.
The finding that experts in a domain are more likely to falsify
their hypotheses has important implications for the debate
about human rationality.
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Author: BYRNE, RUTH MARY JOSEPHINE
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