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Direct linkWilkin, John P. – College & Research Libraries, 2017
The 1961 Copyright Office study on renewals, authored by Barbara Ringer, has cast an outsized influence on discussions of the U.S. 1923-1963 public domain. As more concrete data emerge from initiatives such as the large-scale determination process in the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project, questions are raised about the reliability…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Copyrights, Misconceptions, Test Reliability
Griffiths, Thomas L.; Chater, Nick; Norris, Dennis; Pouget, Alexandre – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
Bowers and Davis (2012) criticize Bayesian modelers for telling "just so" stories about cognition and neuroscience. Their criticisms are weakened by not giving an accurate characterization of the motivation behind Bayesian modeling or the ways in which Bayesian models are used and by not evaluating this theoretical framework against specific…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Psychology, Brain, Models
Williams, Joseph J.; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Errors in detecting randomness are often explained in terms of biases and misconceptions. We propose and provide evidence for an account that characterizes the contribution of the inherent statistical difficulty of the task. Our account is based on a Bayesian statistical analysis, focusing on the fact that a random process is a special case of…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Bias, Misconceptions, Statistical Analysis
