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Download full textPollatsek, Alexander; And Others – 1988
The general question examined by this study was whether the tendency of subjects to ignore the known score in giving the best guess for a sample mean was due to a descriptive heuristic such as representativeness or to a mechanistic one such as active balancing. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, subjects estimated: (1) the mean of a…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Mathematics, Educational Research, Higher Education
