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Philosophy of science

the chance of wrongly accepting or rejecting a hypothesis, which calls for value judgments about how much evidence is enough given the consequences.

In philosophy of science, inductive risk refers to the chance of wrongly accepting or rejecting a hypothesis, which calls for value judgments about how much evidence is enough given the consequences. This meaning comes from Douglas (2000) in Philosophy of Science.[1]

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References

Douglas, H. (2000). Inductive Risk and Values in Science. Philosophy of Science, 67(4), 559-579. https://doi.org/10.1086/392855

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