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Base-rate neglect and coarse probability representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Yanlong Sun  and
Hongbin Wang
Yanlong Sun
Affiliation:
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030. Yanlong.Sun@uth.tmc.eduHongbin.Wang@uth.tmc.edu
Hongbin Wang
Affiliation:
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030. Yanlong.Sun@uth.tmc.eduHongbin.Wang@uth.tmc.edu
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Abstract

We believe that when assessing the likelihood of uncertain events, statistically unsophisticated people utilize a coarse internal scale that only has a limited number of categories. The success of the nested sets hypothesis may lie in its ability to provide an appropriate set structure of the problem by reducing the computational demands.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 282
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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