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Contents Preface—IX Acknowledgments—XI Perspectives CHAPTER 1. The Nature of Science—3 CHAPTER 2. Hypotheses—14 CHAPTER 3. Induction, Deduction, and Retroduction—23 CHAPTER 4. The Nature of Facts—36 CHAPTER 5. Being Humans—46 CHAPTER 6. Creativity—55 CHAPTER 7. Critical Thinking—65 Practice CHAPTER 8. Observational versus Experimental Science—81 CHAPTER 9. Mathematics—90 CHAPTER 10. Statistics—100 CHAPTER 11. Model Selection—113 CHAPTER 12. Interpreting Single-Variable Models—125 CHAPTER 13. Interpreting Multivariable Models—137 CHAPTER 14. Means, Ends, and Shoulds—148 CHAPTER 15. Publishing—157 Epilogue—169 Literature Cited—171 Index—183 ...

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