A dilution effect without dilution: When missing evidence, not non-diagnostic evidence, is judged inaccurately
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Inference, Not Dilution in the Dilution Effect
When asked to combine two pieces of evidence, one diagnostic and one non-diagnostic, people show a dilution effect: the addition of non-diagnostic evidence dilutes the overall strength of the evidence. This non-normative effect has been found in a variety of tasks and has been taken as evidence that people inappropriately combine information. We investigated the dilution effect using simple per...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104110