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Davis, Alexander L.; Fischhoff, Baruch – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Four experiments examined when laypeople attribute unexpected experimental outcomes to error, in foresight and in hindsight, along with their judgments of whether the data should be published. Participants read vignettes describing hypothetical experiments, along with the result of the initial observation, considered as either a possibility…
Descriptors: Evidence, Vignettes, Error Patterns, Error of Measurement