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Nested sets and base-rate neglect: Two types of reasoning?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2007
Abstract
Barbey & Sloman (B&S) claim that frequency formats and other task manipulations induce people to substitute associative thinking for rule-based thinking about nested sets. My critique focuses on the substitution assumption. B&S demonstrate that nested sets are important to solve base-rate problems but they do not show that thinking about these nested sets relies on a different type of reasoning.
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