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The fallacy of placing confidence in confidence intervals
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2015 Interval estimates – estimates of parameters that include an allowance for sampling uncertainty – have long been touted as a key component of statistical analyses.
R. Morey +4 more
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Behavioural science research has the potential to develop evidence‐based strategies to fight disinformation about climate science and climate mitigation action; however, this research has yet to be conducted systematically with validated sets of climate disinformation stimuli. Here, we present the Climate Disinformation Corpus, a collection of
Tobia Spampatti +3 more
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Assessing the role of spatial externalities in the survival of Italian innovative startups
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The paper provides novel empirical evidence about the effects of spatial externalities on the survival of innovative startups in Italy. Using geocoded firm‐level data, we build micro‐geographic measures of specialization and diversity that are robust to the modifiable areal unit problem.
Diego Giuliani +4 more
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Non-Bayesian Updating : A Theoretical Framework [PDF]
This paper models an agent in an infinite horizon setting who does not update according to Bayes' Rule, and who is self-aware and anticipates her updating behavior when formulating plans. Choice-theoretic axiomatic foundations are provided.
Alvaro Sandroni, Larry G. Epstein
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[Review of] Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide to Research [PDF]
, 1992 This much needed resource is an annotated bibliography of nearly sixteen hundred works in print and on film or video. As the authors note in the Introduction, the common fallacy is that there is little available research -- either of historic or ...
Kasee, Cynthia R.
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The Partition Ensemble Fallacy Fallacy
, 2002 The Partition Ensemble Fallacy was recently applied to claim no quantum coherence exists in coherent states produced by lasers. We show that this claim relies on an untestable belief of a particular prior distribution of absolute phase. One's choice for the prior distribution for an unobservable quantity is a matter of `religion'.
Nemoto, Kae, Braunstein, Samuel L.
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In the current research, we use network analysis to examine the structure, ideological foundations and correlates of climate change conspiracy theories, distinguishing between denialist and warmist beliefs. Denialist beliefs, typically endorsed on the political right, claim that climate change is exaggerated, whereas warmist beliefs, more ...
Dylan de Gourville +2 more
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The Failure to Measure Dietary Intake Engendered a Fictional Discourse on Diet-Disease Relations
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2018 Controversies regarding the putative health effects of dietary sugar, salt, fat, and cholesterol are not driven by legitimate differences in scientific inference from valid evidence, but by a fictional discourse on diet-disease relations driven by ...
Edward Archer +2 more
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Searching for the Sunk Cost Fallacy [PDF]
We seek to isolate in the laboratory factors that encourage and discourage the sunk cost fallacy. Subjects play a computer game in which they decide whether to keep digging for treasure on an island or to sink a cost (which will turn out to be either ...
Bernardo A. Huberman +4 more
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Board Attributes, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of National Culture: A Meta‐Analysis
Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue The impact of board structures on firm performance remains a contentious governance topic with competing theoretical paradigms and inconclusive empirical support. Scholars propose that national culture could reconcile contradictory evidence; yet, argumentation is fragmented and direct tests are rare.
Matthew Farrell +8 more
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