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Direct linkPrice, Paul C.; Kimura, Nicole M.; Smith, Andrew R.; Marshall, Lindsay D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Previous research has shown that people exhibit a sample size bias when judging the average of a set of stimuli on a single dimension. The more stimuli there are in the set, the greater people judge the average to be. This effect has been demonstrated reliably for judgments of the average likelihood that groups of people will experience negative,…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Statistical Bias, Visual Perception, Pictorial Stimuli
