In One Word, Why Did Most Scientists Resist the Belief

question 181

Multiple Choice

In one word, why did most scientists resist the belief that Clever Hans could do complex mathematics, even before they had a good explanation of what he was actually doing?

• A) parsimony
• B) randomness
• C) statistics
• D) correlation

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