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Standards of evidence in scientific work, by the very term “standards,” should be consistent, but they are not. Often, well-known “facts” or claims turn out to be wrong, disagreements over the interpretation of data and methods yield to political motivations. Even people who would have us strive for the highest aspirations of scientific quality defend arguments from vox populi, or at least majority rule. This chapter will discuss the standards of evidence in scientific work, with particular emphasis on evolutionary computation and modeling complex adaptive systems. Evidence shows that some models of seemingly simple systems are really quite complicated. In other cases, adjusting assumptions about a model leads to results that are at significant variance from what is commonly accepted. The implications of accepting well-known models of these systems are explored. Two common concepts are identified as being associated with potential problematic models: expectation and equilibrium.

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Fogel, D.B. (2008). The Burden of Proof: Part II. In: Zurada, J.M., Yen, G.G., Wang, J. (eds) Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers. WCCI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5050. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68860-0_10

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