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If the base rate fallacy is a fallacy, does it matter how frequently it is committed?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Jonathan E. Adler
Jonathan E. Adler
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. Brooklyn, NY 11210 jeabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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In many base rate studies, a judgment is required for which the base rates are relevant, and subjects do not use them. It is inferred that the base rates are ignored; I question this inference. Second, I argue that the base rate fallacy is not less significant for what it reveals about human reasoning, if it occurs less frequently than has been alleged.

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Type
Continuing Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997, pp. 774 - 775
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press