Novices views on randomness

Book: 
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Authors: 
Konold, C., Lohmeier, J., Pollatsek, A., Well, A., Falk, R., & Lipson, A.
Type: 
Proceedings
Category: 
Research
Volume: 
1
Pages: 
167-173
Year: 
1991
Publisher: 
Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, October
Place: 
Blacksburg
Abstract: 

Novices and experts rated 18 phenomena as random or non-random and gave justifications for their decisions. Experts rated more of the situations as random than novices. Roughly 90% of the novice justifications were based on reasoning via a) equal likelihood, b) possibility, c) uncertainty, and d) causality.

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