and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the prediction of a hypothesis formulated …The difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a hypothesis is proposed to explain … before observing the evidence) is investigated. According to Bayesian confirmation theory, accommodated and predicted …

In their article “One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer: New Evidence on Anchoring Effects,” Zacharias Maniadis, Fabio … Tufano, and John List (2014) present a framework for statistical inference. Presenting evidence from a simulation, the …

demands for evidence to demonstrate student achievement of stated learning goals. This contextual frame opens the door to a …

, in the difficulty of obtaining what is viewed as 'hard' evidence in support of some of the central claims. For example … only kind of evidence accepted by much of the profession is the testing of econometric hypotheses generated from formal … models. The sort of evidence found in persuasive sources such as DeLong's 'Cornucopia' consists of historical examples and …

evidence that the natural science are much more heavily constrained by evidence and observation than by theory while the social … sciences are constrained by prior theory and hardly at all by direct evidence. Current examples of the latter proposition are … tool to constrain the development of a new social science by direct (what economists dismiss as anecdotal) evidence and …

We contrast two approaches to the prediction of latent variables in the model of factor analysis. The likelihood …

I address the topic of pragmatic methodology as a practitioner in applied microeconomics who has been working in the … still nascent field of the 'economics of organization'. My purpose is both to make explicit the methodology out of which … will develop in the process, maybe even a consensus. At a minimum, it will be useful to have each implicit methodology made …