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.