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The naïve utility calculus supports quantitative producitivity, flexibility, and explanatory depth in commonsense psychology.
Sloman and Fernbach see this effect, which they call the "illusion of explanatory depth," just about everywhere.
This, they write, "may be the only form of thinking that will shatter the illusion of explanatory depth and change people's attitudes".
Considerations of model accuracy, complexity, and explanatory depth are combined into a single indicator of model effectiveness.
Statements take advantage of a fact about human psychology called the "illusion of explanatory depth," an idea developed by the Yale psychologist Frank Keil and his students.
The knowledge illusion — which academics refer to as "the illusion of explanatory depth" — was first revealed by studies of how well (or rather, how poorly) people grasped the workings of everyday objects such as staplers, speedometers, piano keys, door locks and flush toilets.
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Finally, mechanists argue that the intertheoretic model of reduction fails to capture an important dimension of explanatory quality: depth.
And various explanatory virtues (depth, force, scope) all depend on well-confirmed generalizations to supply the resources for explanans and targets for explananda.
For decades, The Los Angeles Times has been considered one of the best papers in the country, a serious source of national and international news and in-depth explanatory and investigative articles.
Hence, in-depth explanatory studies among several health cadres may be useful to identify relevant incentives that can further be assessed through methods such as stated job preferences [ 10].
The most important explanatory variable of soil depth in this landscape is land use, as expected from the strong human intervention.
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