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Direct linkMorsanyi, Kinga; Primi, Caterina; Chiesi, Francesca; Handley, Simon – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009
In three studies we looked at two typical misconceptions of probability: the representativeness heuristic, and the equiprobability bias. The literature on statistics education predicts that some typical errors and biases (e.g., the equiprobability bias) increase with education, whereas others decrease. This is in contrast with reasoning theorists'…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Logical Thinking, Psychology, Statistics
