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... probative value of the evidence . After reading ten items each of prosecution and defense testimony , sub- jects indicated their judgment of the defendant's guilt on a 100 - point scale and were asked to return the next day without ...
... probative value of the evidence . After reading ten items each of prosecution and defense testimony , sub- jects indicated their judgment of the defendant's guilt on a 100 - point scale and were asked to return the next day without ...
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... probative information will have little effect on inferences merely because they are pallid . Aggregated , statistical , data - summary information is often particularly probative , but it is also likely to lack concreteness and ...
... probative information will have little effect on inferences merely because they are pallid . Aggregated , statistical , data - summary information is often particularly probative , but it is also likely to lack concreteness and ...
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... probative , data - summary information sometimes is ignored while less probative , case - history information has a substantial impact on inferences . Although people's responsiveness to vivid information has a certain justification and ...
... probative , data - summary information sometimes is ignored while less probative , case - history information has a substantial impact on inferences . Although people's responsiveness to vivid information has a certain justification and ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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