The pseudodiagnosticity trap: Should participants consider alternative hypotheses?

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 332-345

  Tweney, Ryan D ^a   Doherty, Michael E ^a   Kleiter, Gernot D ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; Diagnostic reasoning; Hypothesis testing; Probabilistic inference; Pseudodiagnosticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649832950     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2010.525860     Document Type: Article

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