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Brown, Norman R.; Siegler, Robert S. – Psychological Review, 1993
A metrics and mapping framework is proposed to account for how heuristics, domain-specific reasoning, and intuitive statistical induction processes are integrated to generate estimates. Results of 4 experiments involving 188 undergraduates illustrate framework usefulness and suggest when people use heuristics and when they emphasize…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Graphs, Heuristics, Higher Education