Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty
@article{Cosmides1996AreHG, title={Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty}, author={L. Cosmides and J. Tooby}, journal={Cognition}, year={1996}, volume={58}, pages={1-73} }
Abstract Professional probabilists have long argued over what probability means, with, for example, Bayesians arguing that probabilities refer to subjective degrees of confidence and frequentists arguing that probabilities refer to the frequencies of events in the world. Recently, Gigerenzer and his colleagues have argued that these same distinctions are made by untutored subjects, and that, for many domains, the human mind represents probabilistic information as frequencies. We analyze several… CONTINUE READING
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