Journal article
Base rates do not constrain nonprobability judgments
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.19(1), pp.40-41
03/1996
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00041443
Abstract
Base rates have no necessary relation to judgments that are not themselves probabilities. There is no logical imperative, for instance, that behavioral base rates must affect causal attributions or that base rate information should affect judgments of legal liability. Decision theorists should be cautious in arguing that base rates place normative constraints on judgments of anything other than posterior probabilities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Base rates do not constrain nonprobability judgments
- Creators
- Paul D Windschitl - Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. s1.pdw@isumvs.iastate.eduGary L Wells - Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. s1.pdw@isumvs.iastate.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.19(1), pp.40-41
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0140525X00041443
- ISSN
- 0140-525X
- eISSN
- 1469-1825
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1996
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213390402771
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