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Direct linkHertwig, Ralph; Pachur, Thorsten; Kurzenhauser, Stephanie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
How do people judge which of 2 risks claims more lives per year? The authors specified 4 candidate mechanisms and tested them against people's judgments in 3 risk environments. Two mechanisms, availability by recall and regressed frequency, conformed best to people's choices. The same mechanisms also accounted well for the mapping accuracy of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Information Processing, Incentives, Cognitive Processes
Reading, Chris; Reid, Jackie – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Recent research into students' reasoning about variation refers specifically to notions of distribution that emerge. This paper reports on research where written responses, from tertiary introductory statistics students, were coded according to the level of consideration of variation. A hierarchy of reasoning about distribution is proposed, based…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, College Students, Cognitive Processes, Classification
