Can we shift belief in the ‘Law of Small Numbers’?

‘Sample size neglect’ is a tendency to underestimate how the variability of mean estimates changes with sample size. We studied 100 participants, from science or social science backgrounds, to test whether a training task showing different-sized samples of data points (the ‘beeswarm’ task) can help...

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Main Authors: D. V. M. Bishop, Jackie Thompson, Adam J. Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-03-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211028