The base rate fallacy reconsidered: Descriptive, normative, and methodological challenges

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  1996

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  Behavioral and Brain Sciences

• Publication date

  1996-03-01

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1017/S0140525X00041157
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