Assessing the rationality of lay social inference
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (4):775-776 (1997)
| Abstract | This commentary is in agreement with the thrust of Koehler's target article. The issue I deal with is whether a Bayesian framework represents an adequate general normative framework for deciding the rationality of lay judgments, even when it can be unambiguously applied. | |||||||||
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