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How not to answer interdisciplinary “Why?” questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Fred L. Bookstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. flb@stat.washington.edu

Abstract

The book under review tries to link the economic concept of “reward,” or, more accurately, “capture rate,” to the experimental literature of various neuroscientific quantities dealing with motor control. But this reviewer argues that such a linkage requires a richer language of quantification than the book actually affords: a language not just of “greater” or “less,” but of how much greater or less. Without such a methodology, the arguments here cannot be persuasive.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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