Inference from Explanation

This repository contains the materials for the paper "Inference from Explanation" by Lara Kirfel, Thomas Icard, and Tobias Gerstenberg.

Repository structure

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├── code
│   ├── R
│   │   ├── cache
│   │   └── inference_from_explanation_files
│   └── qualtrics
├── data
├── docs
├── figures
│   ├── diagrams
│   ├── experiment_screenshots
│   └── plots
└── videos
    ├── experiment_1
    │   ├── conjunctive
    │   └── disjunctive
    └── experiment_2
        ├── conjunctive
        └── disjunctive

R

Contains the analysis script. You can view the analysis in your browser here.

qualtrics

Contains the qualtrics files for all of the experiments.

Experiment 1: Normality inference

• statistical_conjunctive.qsf: statistical norm, conjunctive structure
• statistical_disjunctive.qsf: statistical norm, disjunctive structure
• prescriptive_conjunctive.qsf: prescriptive norm, conjunctive structure
• prescriptive_disjunctive.qsf: prescriptive norm, disjunctive structure

Experiment 2: Structure inference

• statistical_abnormal.qsf: statistical norm, abnormal event
• statistical_normal.qsf: statistical norm, normal event
• prescriptive_normal.qsf: prescriptive norm, abnormal event
• prescriptive_abnormal.qsf: prescriptive norm, normal event

data

Contains the raw data files. The names of the data files follow the same convention as specified for the qualtrics files. For example, prescriptive_abnormal.csv contains that data from Experiment 2 in which participants were asked to infer the causal structure when an abnormal event was cited in the explanation.

figures

Contains the diagrams, experiment materials, and plots.

videos

Contains the videos from both experiments.