On the Psychology of Prediction: Whose Is the Fallacy?.

Cohen, L. Jonathan

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On the Psychology of Prediction: Whose Is the Fallacy?

Cohen, L. Jonathan

Cognition, v7 n4 p385-407 Dec 1979

Until recently, norms of experimental reasoning have lacked systematic theoretical development. Thus, it has been easy for psychologists like Tversky and Kahneman to misclassify certain human reasoning processes as being Pascalian and invalid, rather than as being Baconian and valid. (CP)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Formulas, Prediction, Probability, Reliability, Research Problems, Research Reviews (Publications), Sampling

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