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Direct linkRansom, Keith J.; Perfors, Andrew; Hayes, Brett K.; Connor Desai, Saoirse – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In describing how people generalize from observed samples of data to novel cases, theories of inductive inference have emphasized the learner's reliance on the contents of the sample. More recently, a growing body of literature suggests that different assumptions about how a data sample was generated can lead the learner to draw qualitatively…
Descriptors: Sampling, Generalization, Inferences, Logical Thinking
