From base-rate to cumulative respect

Beaman, C.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-242X and McCloy, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2333-9640 (2007) From base-rate to cumulative respect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30 (3). pp. 256-257. ISSN 0140-525X doi: 10.1017/s0140525x07001677

Abstract/Summary

The tendency to neglect base-rates in judgment under uncertainty may be "notorious," as Barbey & Sloman (B&S) suggest, but it is neither inevitable (as they document; see also Koehler 1996) nor unique. Here we would like to point out another line of evidence connecting ecological rationality to dual processes, the failure of individuals to appropriately judge cumulative probability.