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Peter C. Wason · On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task

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Peter C. Wason

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On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 12(3), 1960, title and pages 129–140

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cognitive-biases · decision-making · quote

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From On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 12(3), 1960, title and pages 129–140.

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English translation; consult the named source edition for the original wording.

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Learn peter wason on eliminating hypotheses through its definition, strongest evidence, a worked example, key limitations, and practical decision implications.

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“failure to eliminate hypotheses”

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For Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, the source is On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 12(3), 1960, title and pages 129–140. On the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses record, the excerpt is deliberately short and its capitalization follows the located text.

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In this Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses context, “failure to eliminate hypotheses” — WAS60, article title and pp. Applied specifically to Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, 129–140. For Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, in context, the wording identifies a precise research claim, not a slogan that all intuitive judgment is defective. On the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses record, the surrounding argument states the decision exercise, comparison, and evidentiary limit.

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In this Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses context, the passage matters because it compresses “failure to eliminate hypotheses” — WAS60, article title and pp. Applied specifically to Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, 129–140. For Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, its responsible interpretation keeps the experimental or theoretical boundary visible and does not diagnose an individual from an isolated choice.

On the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses record, the quotation connects to calibrated confidence, base-rate reasoning, disconfirming evidence, and decision-process review. In this Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses context, those links explain the idea and not merely collecting adjacent names.

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The available evidence audit for Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses begins with a narrow claim: “failure to eliminate hypotheses” — was60, article title and pp. For Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, 129–140. On the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses record, the first cited record, On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task, is used for that owned proposition. In this Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses context, the second source supplies a comparison or field-level boundary. Applied specifically to Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses, neither source is treated as authority for facts it does not report.

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  • 01
    On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual TaskBy Peter C. WasonQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 12(3), 129–140 (1960); source 1 supports the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses evidence auditConsult source
  • 02
    Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and BiasesBy Amos Tversky and Daniel KahnemanScience 185(4157), 1124–1131 (1974); source 2 supports the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses evidence auditConsult source
  • 03
    Crossref Scholarly MetadataBy CrossrefAuthoritative source record; source 3 supports the Peter Wason on Eliminating Hypotheses evidence auditConsult source

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