CONSERVATIVE INFERENCE WITH SIMPLE AND DIFFUSE HYPOTHESES.

Abstract

A large number of experiments have evaluated the manner in which men make inferences about hypotheses on the basis of fallible data. The most important conclusion of these experiments is that man is a conservative information processor, unable to extract as much information as is latent in the data. The research reported further investigates the phenomena of conservative information processing. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0656781

Entities

People

  • Ward Edwards

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Information Processing

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference