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... implications , have less impact than does inferior but more vivid evidence . Fortunately , there are some laboratory demonstrations that make the same point and that control for the exposure and attention effects which often could ...
... implications , have less impact than does inferior but more vivid evidence . Fortunately , there are some laboratory demonstrations that make the same point and that control for the exposure and attention effects which often could ...
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... implications of such work seem extremely dire and therefore seem , in a sense , to be contradicted by the evidence that people do manage to understand , predict , and control most facets of their lives and of their societies . People do ...
... implications of such work seem extremely dire and therefore seem , in a sense , to be contradicted by the evidence that people do manage to understand , predict , and control most facets of their lives and of their societies . People do ...
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... implications for the actor . Only seldom are people called upon to act in accor- dance with beliefs about covariation , such as those concerning the tempera- ment of redheads or the thriftiness of Scots . Many erroneous inferences about ...
... implications for the actor . Only seldom are people called upon to act in accor- dance with beliefs about covariation , such as those concerning the tempera- ment of redheads or the thriftiness of Scots . Many erroneous inferences about ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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