ABSTRACT
Theories that address how people respond to anomalous data either explicitly state or imply that anomalies are processed differently from non-anomalous data. (Chinn & Brewer, 1992; Alberdi, Sleeman, & Korpi, 2000; Trickett, Trafton, Schunn, & Harrison, 2001). However, studies of reasoning about anomalies do not provide an experimental basis for comparison between responses to anomalous versus non-anomalous data.
