Decision Quality (Always) Increases With the Size of Information Samples-Provided That the Decision Rule Is Statistically Valid: Comment on Fiedler and Kareev (2006)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 829-841

  Cahan, Sorel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

binary choice; decision quality; estimation; law of large numbers; small sample advantage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77953165569     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019179     Document Type: Article

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