The Natural History of Hypotheses About the Selection Task: Towards a Philosophy of Science for Investigating Human Reasoning

Abstract

Wason's (1968) selection task was designed as a test of subjects' hypothesis testing behaviour, and Wason's early analysis of the difficulties subjects have with the task are closely related to Popper's philosophy of science. Popper's account of science is one of a progressive approach to a true theory through the sequential falsification of hypotheses refined in the light of previous falsification. Wason's early account of subjects' failure to turn the fase-consequent card was in terms of failure to attempt to falsify.

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