Book:
New Directions in Attribution Research
Type:
Category:
Volume:
3
Pages:
62-95
Year:
1981
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Place:
Hillsdale, NJ
Abstract:
This chapter focuses on the intuitive scientist's ability to use base rate or distributional information in two of these inferential tasks: causal analysis and prediction. It will be argued that essentially the same characteristics of human inference are implicated in these tasks.
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