Where do hypotheses come from?

Why are human inferences sometimes remarkably close to the Bayesian ideal and other times systematically biased? One notable instance of this discrepancy is that tasks where the candidate hypotheses are explicitly available result in close to rational inference over the hypothesis space, whereas tas...

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Main Authors: Dasgupta, Ishita, Schulz, Eric, Gershman, Samuel J.
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105158