Much of the work in judgment and decision making highlights how people fail to use data in a normative manner. I will show that although inferences are often flawed, laypeople have statistical intuitions and are able to integrate them with their causal understanding of the world.
Event Details
Use of statistical data when making inferences
- Event Date: December 6, 2016
- Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
- Event End Time: 2:00 PM
- Event Location: William Paterson University of New Jersey, Department of Psychology
- Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia
- Event Semester: Fall 2016
- Event Contact: Dr. Natalie A. Obrecht
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/departments/psychology/faculty/obrecht/obrecht.html">Dr. Natalie A. Obrecht</a>