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When evaluating the reliability and generality of data, it is often important to know the aims of the experimenter. When evaluating the importance of experimental results, however, science has a trick of disregarding the experimenter's rationale and finding a more appropriate context for the data than the one he proposed.

Murray Sidman

Murray Sidman

Murray Sidman

Born: April 29, 1923

Died: May 18, 2019 (aged 96)

Bio: Murray Sidman was a pioneering behavioral scientist, best known for Sidman Avoidance, also called "free-operant avoidance", in which an individual learns to avoid an aversive stimulus by remembering to produce the response without any other stimulus.

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