The bet on bias: A foregone conclusion?

Psycoloquy

Volumn 9, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Krueger, Joachim ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' rule; Bias; Hypothesis testing; Individual differences probability; Rationality; Significance testing; Social cognition; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003305235     PISSN: 10550143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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