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How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction
It is important to reveal how humans evaluate an explanation of the recent development of explainable artificial intelligence. So, what makes people feel that one explanation is more likely than another? In the present study, we examine how explanatory virtues affect the process of estimating subjec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33362641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575746 |
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author | Shimojo, Asaya Miwa, Kazuhisa Terai, Hitoshi |
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description | It is important to reveal how humans evaluate an explanation of the recent development of explainable artificial intelligence. So, what makes people feel that one explanation is more likely than another? In the present study, we examine how explanatory virtues affect the process of estimating subjective posterior probability. Through systematically manipulating two virtues, Simplicity—the number of causes used to explain effects—and Scope—the number of effects predicted by causes—in three different conditions, we clarified two points in Experiment 1: (i) that Scope's effect is greater than Simplicity's; and (ii) that these virtues affect the outcome independently. In Experiment 2, we found that instruction about the explanatory structure increased the impact of both virtues' effects but especially that of Simplicity. These results suggest that Scope predominantly affects the estimation of subjective posterior probability, but that, if perspective on the explanatory structure is provided, Simplicity can also affect probability estimation. |
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spelling | pubmed-77560582020-12-24 How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction Shimojo, Asaya Miwa, Kazuhisa Terai, Hitoshi Front Psychol Psychology It is important to reveal how humans evaluate an explanation of the recent development of explainable artificial intelligence. So, what makes people feel that one explanation is more likely than another? In the present study, we examine how explanatory virtues affect the process of estimating subjective posterior probability. Through systematically manipulating two virtues, Simplicity—the number of causes used to explain effects—and Scope—the number of effects predicted by causes—in three different conditions, we clarified two points in Experiment 1: (i) that Scope's effect is greater than Simplicity's; and (ii) that these virtues affect the outcome independently. In Experiment 2, we found that instruction about the explanatory structure increased the impact of both virtues' effects but especially that of Simplicity. These results suggest that Scope predominantly affects the estimation of subjective posterior probability, but that, if perspective on the explanatory structure is provided, Simplicity can also affect probability estimation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7756058/ /pubmed/33362641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575746 Text en Copyright © 2020 Shimojo, Miwa and Terai. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Shimojo, Asaya Miwa, Kazuhisa Terai, Hitoshi How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title | How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title_full | How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title_fullStr | How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title_full_unstemmed | How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title_short | How Does Explanatory Virtue Determine Probability Estimation?—Empirical Discussion on Effect of Instruction |
title_sort | how does explanatory virtue determine probability estimation?—empirical discussion on effect of instruction |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33362641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575746 |
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