Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 32 / Issue 01 / February 2009, pp 99-100
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000454 (About DOI), Published online: 12 February 2009
Open Peer Commentary
Popper's Severity of Test as an intuitive probabilistic model of hypothesis testing
Fenna H. Poletieka1
a1 Department of Psychology, Leiden University, 2300RB Leiden, The Netherlands. poletiek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract
Severity of Test (SoT) is an alternative to Popper's logical falsification that solves a number of problems of the logical view. It was presented by Popper himself in 1963. SoT is a less sophisticated probabilistic model of hypothesis testing than Oaksford & Chater's (O&C's) information gain model, but it has a number of striking similarities. Moreover, it captures the intuition of everyday hypothesis testing.
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