Misaggregation Explains Conservative Inference About Normally Distributed Populations

Misaggregation Explains Conservative Inference About Normally Distributed Populations

Three major hypotheses have been proposed to account for conservative inference: misaggregation, misperception, and response bias. The research reported in this paper allowed the testing of these hypotheses. Subjects made probabilistic judgments about stimuli generated from normally distributed popu...

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Hauptverfasser: Wheeler, Gloria E, Edwards, Ward
Format: Report
Sprache:eng
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BAYES THEOREM
HYPOTHESES
NORMAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS
PROBABILITY
Psychology
RANDOM VARIABLES
SAMPLING
STATISTICAL INFERENCE
Statistics and Probability
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Zusammenfassung:Three major hypotheses have been proposed to account for conservative inference: misaggregation, misperception, and response bias. The research reported in this paper allowed the testing of these hypotheses. Subjects made probabilistic judgments about stimuli generated from normally distributed populations. Sponsored in part by DARPA.