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The nature and use of ecotoxicological evidence : natural science, statistics, psychology, and sociology /

The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Michael C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1. Introduction
  • The emerging importance of pollution
  • Section 2: How individuals gather and judge evidence
  • Human reasoning: everyday heuristics and foibles
  • Human reasoning: within scientific traditions and rules
  • Pathological reasoning within sciences
  • Individual scientist: reasoning by the numbers
  • Section 3: How groups weigh and apply evidence
  • Social processing of evidence: commonplace dynamics and foibles
  • How innovations enter and move within groups
  • Evidence in social networks
  • Section 4: Conclusion
  • Conclusion.