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Direct linkKaplan, Jennifer K. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
Psychologists have discovered a phenomenon called "Belief Bias" in which subjects rate the strength of arguments based on the believability of the conclusions. This paper reports the results of a small qualitative pilot study of undergraduate students who had previously taken an algebra-based introduction to statistics class. The subjects in this…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Beliefs, Bias, Evaluative Thinking
