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This work was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Contract N00014-79-312-0730 under subcontract from Decisions and Designs, Inc. to Perceptronics, Inc. We wish to thank Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein for comments on an earlier draft.
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We wish to thank Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein for comments on an earlier draft.
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