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How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”
Author:
Gerd Gigerenzer a
| Affiliation: | a University of Salzburg, Austria |
DOI:
10.1080/14792779143000033
First Published on:
01 January 1991
Subject:
Social Psychology;
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Abstract
Most so-called “errors” in probabilistic reasoning are in fact not violations of probability theory. Examples of such “errors” include overconfidence bias, conjunction fallacy, and base-rate neglect. Researchers have relied on a very narrow normative view, and have ignored conceptual distinctions—e.g. single case versus relative frequency—fundamental to probability theory. By recognizing and using these distinctions, however, we can make apparently stable “errors” disappear, reappear, or even invert. I suggest what a reformed understanding of judgments under uncertainty might look like.
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