Reply to C.D. Richter

Towards Competitive Instead of Biased Testing of Heuristics: A Reply to Hilbig and Richter (2011)

Our programmatic article on Homo heuristicus (Gigerenzer & Brighton, 2009) included a methodological section specifying three minimum criteria for testing heuristics: competitive tests, individual-level tests, and tests of adaptive selection of heuristics. Using Richter and Späth's (2006) study on the recognition heuristic, we illustrated how violations of these criteria can lead to unsupported...

Josef Richter

Wolfram F . Richter

The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors' own opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Interne...

Heather Richter

INTRODUCTION My research career began as an undergraduate in Software Engineering, exploring formal specification of functional models. My interest in the human aspects of software engineering led me to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing as a graduate student, where I have investigated automated meeting capture and access. I implemented and evaluated prototypes that captu...

Reply to “Chronic Vaginal Candidiasis Is Achievable in Outbred CD-1 Mice”

We appreciate the attention given to our publication regarding the mechanism associated with the immunopathogenic response in experimental vulvovaginal candidiasis that employed mice resistant (CD-1) and susceptible (C3H/HeN) to chronic colonization/infection (6). We respect data presented by Gabrielli et al. (1) regarding the achievement of a chronic colonization condition in the CD-1 strain o...