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... Example 3 seems less intuitively obvious and at first seems quite unconnected to the other two examples . Nevertheless , the chief source of error in all three cases seems to us to be the availability heuristic . Consider Example 1 ...
... Example 3 seems less intuitively obvious and at first seems quite unconnected to the other two examples . Nevertheless , the chief source of error in all three cases seems to us to be the availability heuristic . Consider Example 1 ...
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... example , the actor who gives a dollar to a beggar is apt to attribute his behavior to the sad plight of the beggar ... example , Taylor & Fiske 1975 , 1978 ) , has demonstrated a more general point regarding availability and ...
... example , the actor who gives a dollar to a beggar is apt to attribute his behavior to the sad plight of the beggar ... example , Taylor & Fiske 1975 , 1978 ) , has demonstrated a more general point regarding availability and ...
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... example , the Sinologist / psychologist problem , people are foiled mainly because important information is neglected , that is , the relevant base rates are ignored . In many circumstances , of course , such information is absent , and ...
... example , the Sinologist / psychologist problem , people are foiled mainly because important information is neglected , that is , the relevant base rates are ignored . In many circumstances , of course , such information is absent , and ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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