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Naïve Point Estimation.

The capacity of short-term memory is a key constraint when people make online judgments requiring them to rely on samples retrieved from memory (e.g., Dougherty & Hunter, 2003). In this article, the authors compare 2 accounts of how people use knowledge of statistical distributions to make point est...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 782 - 801
Main Authors: Lindskog, Marcus, Winman, Anders, Juslin, Peter
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association May2013
Subjects:
Psychology
Short-term memory
Fix-point estimation
Comparative studies
Probability theory
Statistical sampling
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