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insensitivity to sample size: a standalone construct

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Judgment and decision making

judging the likelihood of a sample statistic by its similarity to the population while ignoring how sample size changes its variability.

In judgment and decision making, insensitivity to sample size refers to judging the likelihood of a sample statistic by its similarity to the population while ignoring how sample size changes its variability. This meaning comes from Kahneman (1972) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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representativeness3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs judgment2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs likelihood3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1972). Subjective probability: A judgment of representativeness. Cognitive Psychology, 3(3), 430-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(72)90016-3

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