(Presented with the Marr and Zeiler files)
Shimp, C. P. (1999).
Tolerance in a rigorous science.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
71, 284-288.
Scientists often evaluate other people's theories by the same
standards they apply to their own work; it is as though
scientists may believe that these criteria are independent of
their own personal priorities and standards. As a result of this
probably implicit belief, they sometimes may make less useful
judgments than they otherwise might if they were able and willing
to evaluate a specific theory at least partly in terms of the
standards appropriate to that theory. Journal editors can play an
especially constructive role in managing this diversity of
standards and opinion.
Key words: tolerance, diversity, truth, conviction, parsimony,
historicity