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inverse fallacy: a standalone construct

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inversefallacy1 CONSTRUCTInverse fallacyVILLEJOUBERT · JUDGMENT AND

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Judgment and decision making

treating the probability of the evidence given a hypothesis as if it were the probability of the hypothesis given the evidence.

In judgment and decision making, inverse fallacy refers to treating the probability of the evidence given a hypothesis as if it were the probability of the hypothesis given the evidence. This meaning comes from Villejoubert (2002) in Memory & Cognition.[1]

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cognition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsevidence2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsfallacy1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

  1. Villejoubert, G., & Mandel, D. R. (2002). The inverse fallacy: An account of deviations from Bayes’s theorem and the additivity principle. Memory & Cognition, 30(2), 171-178. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03195278

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