Journal article
Doing the impossible: A note on induction and the experience of randomness
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.8(6), pp.626-636
11/1982
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.8.6.626
Abstract
The process of induction is formulated as a problem in detecting nonrandomness or pattern against a background of randomness or noise. Experimental approaches that have been taken to evaluate the rationality of human conceptions of randomness are described, and the narrow conceptions of randomness implicit in this experimental literature are contrasted with the broader and less well agreed upon conceptions of randomness in philosophy and mathematics. The relation between induction and the experience of randomness is discussed in terms of signal detection theory. It is argued that an adequate evaluation of human conceptions of randomness must consider the role those conceptions play in inductive inference. (36 ref)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Doing the impossible: A note on induction and the experience of randomness
- Creators
- Lola L Lopes - U Wisconsin, Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.8(6), pp.626-636
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-7393.8.6.626
- ISSN
- 0278-7393
- eISSN
- 1939-1285
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Number of pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1982
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984963204902771
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