Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:< Not quite the same, but the literature on illusory correlations etc.:
Chapman & Chapman: Chapman, L. J., & Chapman, J. P. (1967). Genesis of popular but erroneous psychodiagnostic observations. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 72, 193-204. Chapman, L. J., & Chapman, J. P. (1969). Illusory correlation as an obstacle to the use of valid psychodiagnostic signs. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 74, 271-280. Jennings & Ward (1965), Jennings, Amabile & Ross (1982) - the latter reprinted in Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (Eds.). (1982). Judgement under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mean judgements of correlation (from experience, not plots) = 100(1- root(1-RSquared)) in the Jennings et al. paper. Thom . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
