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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2022-03-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211028 |