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Summary on inductive risk

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Terms Definitions

Epidemiology Epidemiology is the study of the distribution
of disease and other health states in human
populations by means of group
comparisons for the purpose of improving
population health” (p. 248).

No Established Method
Does it have an
aim?
Inferences (conclusions drawn from data)

Disease Classification
Traditional Identified by their cause
Contemporary Multifactorial

Interpretation to the Best Explanation Look at assignment
“Each piece of evidence on its own is weak,
but the combination, handled correctly,
amounts to a strong case.” (p. 252).
Triangulation of evidence: each hypothesis
is tested against the sum of all evidence

Potential Outcomes Approach But contemporary epidemiology states that,
if you want to make a causal claim, then
you must specify the intervention that would
reduce an outcome in an exposed group.

Classical Inductive Risk still make use of inductive reasoning for
justifying many of our beliefs. And we use
our inductively-supported beliefs to make
important predictions and solve important
problems. Even though there is a
fundamental philosophical problem with
induction, we often accept the risk
associated with it. This is one of the basic
ideas behind inductive risk. There is always
a chance that we could accept a false
hypothesis, or reject a true hypothesis.

Epistemic Factor has to do with how we form our beliefs and
come up with knowledge
Rules for Confirmation and Acceptance
Rules of Confirmation concerned with what kind of evidence
supports or disconfirms a hypothesis, and to

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