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... sometimes biased at the stage of sampling , sometimes at the stage of encoding and storage , and sometimes at the stage of retrieval , frequency and likelihood estimates often will be biased correspondingly . The representativeness ...
... sometimes biased at the stage of sampling , sometimes at the stage of encoding and storage , and sometimes at the stage of retrieval , frequency and likelihood estimates often will be biased correspondingly . The representativeness ...
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... sometimes accurate and sometimes not . The layperson normally believes , for example , that color is a property of objects that can be known independently of any background knowledge of the object or the conditions under which it is ...
... sometimes accurate and sometimes not . The layperson normally believes , for example , that color is a property of objects that can be known independently of any background knowledge of the object or the conditions under which it is ...
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... Sometimes this idiosyncratic knowledge arises simply because the actor recalls the past experiences that plausibly dictate the present mean- ing of particular stimuli or responses ; sometimes it arises because he con- sciously ...
... Sometimes this idiosyncratic knowledge arises simply because the actor recalls the past experiences that plausibly dictate the present mean- ing of particular stimuli or responses ; sometimes it arises because he con- sciously ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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