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Do people have a similar intuitive feel for the basic principles of statistics? Amos reported that the answer was a qualified yes. We had a lively debate in the seminar and ultimately concluded that a qualified no was a better answer.
Historians of science have often noted that at any given time scholars in a particular field tend to share basic ... medical diagnosis, legal judgment, intelligence analysis, philosophy, finance, statistics, and military strategy.
Part 1 presents the basic elements of a two-systems approach to judgment and choice. ... We easily think as- sociatively, we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics re- quires thinking about many things at once, ...
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