Thanks, this material is very interesting. BTW re: the Jennings et al cite Kahneman, who did work such as this in social/cognitive psych, recnetly received a Nobel prize. Since there is no prize in psych/cognitive/behavioral science, it was a sprize in "Economics".
Art Thom wrote: >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/ . =================================================================
