Interpersonal comparison of subjective probabilities: Toward translating linguistic probabilities
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Interpersonal comparison of subjective probabilities: toward translating linguistic probabilities.
Interpersonal variability in understanding linguistic probabilities can adversely affect decision making. Using the fact that everyone judges canonical probability events similarly in a manner consistent with axiom systems that yield a probability measure, we developed and tested a method for comparing the meanings of probability phrases across individuals. An experiment demonstrated that despi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03193213