There is surely considerable truth to this notion that people lack good schemata for working with probabilistic information…. Consistent with Russell’s hypothesis, emotional interest has in every case carried the day.
- Nisbett, Borgida, Crandall, Reed, paper in Carroll , Payne, Cognition and Social Behavior, 1976 -
Popular induction depends upon the emotional interest of the instances, not upon their number.
- Bertrand Russell, Philosophy, 1927, pg 269 -
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