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Base rate

Known as: Base rates, Base-rate 
In probability and statistics, base rate generally refers to the (base) class probabilities unconditioned on featural evidence, frequently also known… (More)
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2015
2015
Support for a Deliberative Failure Account of Base-Rate Neglect: Prompting Deliberation Increases Base-Rate Use
People often base judgments on stereotypes, even when contradictory base-rate information is provided. It has been suggested this… (More)
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2013
2013
Base Rates for Belief Functions
The concept of base rates is central in the theory of probability. Base rates are for example useful for default and for… (More)
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2008
2008
Base-rate Respect by Intuition: Approximating Rational Choices in Base-rate Tasks with Multiple Cues
Although intuitive-automatic processes sometimes lead to systematic biases in judgment and choice, in many situations especially… (More)
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2005
2005
Bayesian Inference: Combining Base Rates With Opinions of Sources Who Vary in Credibility
Subjects made judgments of the probability of an event given base-rate information and the opinion of a source. Base rate and the… (More)
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2005
2005
A Feature-Salience Analogue of the Inverse Base-rate Effect
Classification learning requires integrating many properties of the items being learned including the base-rate probability that… (More)
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2003
2003
Overconfidence , base rates and outcome positivity / negativity of predicted events
Overconfidence is said to occur when a person's confidence in a series of predictions exceeds the level of accuracy achieved. In… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
The Base-rate Fallacy in Probability Judgments
The base-rate fallacy is people’s tendency to ignore base rates in favor of, e.g., individuating information (when such is… (More)
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1997
Review
1997
Do Subjects Understand Base Rates?
Investigations of the degree to which people neglect or use base rates typically require subjects to make a judgment based on… (More)
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1989
1989
LMS Rules and the Inverse Base-Rate Effect: Comment on Gluck and Bower (1988)
(}luck and Bower (1988) suggestmi that through the use of the Rescorla-Wagner learning rule, a connectionist network might be… (More)
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Presentation and Content: The Use of Base Rates as a Continuous Variable
Do subjects, in probability revision experiments, generally neglect base rates due to the use of a representativeness heuristic… (More)
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