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... statistical considerations or of how to combine the statistical considerations with representativeness considerations . The availability heuristic is used when judging frequency , probability , and even causality . Objects or events are ...
... statistical considerations or of how to combine the statistical considerations with representativeness considerations . The availability heuristic is used when judging frequency , probability , and even causality . Objects or events are ...
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... statistical summary " condition received what was purported to be actual mean evaluations ( on five - point , excellent - to - poor scales ) , based on the reports of the dozens of students who had taken each course the preceding term ...
... statistical summary " condition received what was purported to be actual mean evaluations ( on five - point , excellent - to - poor scales ) , based on the reports of the dozens of students who had taken each course the preceding term ...
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... statistical standards - was pursued a generation ago by psychologists concerned with clinical predictions . By 1955 , when Paul Meehl wrote his classic Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction , there already were a score of studies in which ...
... statistical standards - was pursued a generation ago by psychologists concerned with clinical predictions . By 1955 , when Paul Meehl wrote his classic Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction , there already were a score of studies in which ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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