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How to reconsider the base rate fallacy without forgetting the concept of systematic processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Pablo Fernandez-Berrocal
Affiliation:
Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain, berrocal@ccuma.uma.es
Julian Almaraz
Affiliation:
Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain, berrocal@ccuma.uma.es
Susana Segura
Affiliation:
Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain, berrocal@ccuma.uma.es

Abstract

(1) There is enough contradictory evidence regarding the role of base rates in category learning to confirm the nonexistence of biases in such learning. (2) It is not always possible to activate statistical reasoning through frequentist representation. (3) It is necessary to use the concept of systematic processing in reconsidering the published work on biases.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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