BASE RATES, EXPERIENCE, AND THE BIG PICTURE

Authors
EDGELL SE ROE RM DODD CH
Citation
Se. Edgell et al., BASE RATES, EXPERIENCE, AND THE BIG PICTURE, Behavioral and brain sciences, 19(1), 1996, pp. 21
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1996)19:1<21:BREATB>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The important question is how people process probabilistic information , not whether they process it in accordance with a normative model tha t we never should have expected them to be capable of following. Exper ience is not the cure, as widely thought, to problems with utilizing b ase rate information.