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Publication Date: 2004-Nov
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Subjective Probability Intervals: How to Reduce Overconfidence by Interval Evaluation
Winman, Anders; Hansson, Patrik; Juslin, Peter
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v30 n6 p1167-1175 Nov 2004
Format dependence implies that assessment of the same subjective probability distribution produces different conclusions about over- or underconfidence depending on the assessment format. In 2 experiments, the authors demonstrate that the overconfidence bias that occurs when participants produce intervals for an uncertain quantity is almost abolished when they evaluate the probability that the same intervals include the quantity. The authors successfully apply a method for adaptive adjustment of probability intervals as a debiasing tool and discuss a tentative explanation in terms of a naive sampling model. According to this view, people report their experiences accurately, but they are naive in that they treat both sample proportion and sample dispersion as unbiased estimators, yielding small bias in probability evaluation but strong bias in interval production.
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