Insensitivity to sample size
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Insensitivity to sample size
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Insensitivity to sample size is a cognitive bias that occurs when people judge the probability of obtaining a sample statistic without respect to the sample size. For example, in one study, subjects assigned the same probability to the likelihood of obtaining a mean height of above six feet [183 cm] in samples of 10, 100, and 1,000 men. In other words, variation is more likely in smaller samples, but people may not expect this. In another example, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman asked subjects
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Cognitive bias
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitivity_to_sample_size
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2024-01-14T14:53:00Z
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