How people use statistics

We document two new facts about the distributions of answers in famous statistical problems: they are i) multi-modal and ii) unstable with respect to irrelevant changes in the problem. We offer a model in which, when solving a problem, people represent each hypothesis by attending “bottom up” to its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bordalo, P, Conlon, JJ, Gennaioli, N, Kwon, S, Shleifer, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023