In the previous installment on evaluating scientific models hinted that one standard of evaluation is the degree to which they are broadly applicable in explaining natural phenomena. As mentioned in ...

Models are important for understanding the current and future states of the world and we use many, for instance the capital asset pricing model, to help us understand markets and investing. But most ...

Explanatory pluralism has been defended by several philosophers of history and social science, recently, for example, by Tor Egil Førland in this journal. In this article, we provide a better argument ...

The Accounting Review, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 385-399 (15 pages) In a thorough review of market-based research on the information content of accounting earnings, Lev (1989) concludes that ...

New research has questioned the gender identity being a stronger determinant than biological relations in the performance of athletes in mass-participation races. Dr John Armstrong, King’s, Dr Alice ...

Vox is an explanatory journalism website started by former Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein. What's explanatory journalism? Good question. It's journalism that tries to explain things ...