Abstract: . . .  Cambridge University Press. February 17 – Guest Lecture by Eric Schoenberg SZZ – Chapter 5 Readings: TBA February 24 – Heuristics are a good thing?! SZZ – Chapter 6 Page 4 W1490 Spring 2004 Syllabus Gigerenzer, G, Todd, P. M. and the ABC Research Group (1999). Simple Heuristics that Make us Smarter . Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1 and 4). . . .
. . .  Cambridge University Press. February 17 – Guest Lecture by Eric Schoenberg SZZ – Chapter 5 Readings: TBA February 24 – Heuristics are a good thing?! SZZ – Chapter 6 Page 4 W1490 Spring 2004 Syllabus Gigerenzer, G, Todd, P. M. and the ABC Research Group (1999). Simple Heuristics that Make us Smarter . Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1 and 4). March . . .
. . .  University Press. February 17 – Guest Lecture by Eric Schoenberg SZZ – Chapter 5 Readings: TBA February 24 – Heuristics are a good thing?! SZZ – Chapter 6 Page 4 W1490 Spring 2004 Syllabus Gigerenzer, G, Todd, P. M. and the ABC Research Group (1999). Simple Heuristics that Make us Smarter . Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1 and 4). March 2 – Midterm . . .
. . .  University Press. February 17 – Guest Lecture by Eric Schoenberg SZZ – Chapter 5 Readings: TBA February 24 – Heuristics are a good thing?! SZZ – Chapter 6 Page 4 W1490 Spring 2004 Syllabus Gigerenzer, G, Todd, P. M. and the ABC Research Group (1999). Simple Heuristics that Make us Smarter . Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1 and 4). March 2 – Midterm . . .
. . .  Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(10), 1379-1387. Related Optional Readings: Wason, P. C. (1960). On the failure to eliminate hypotheses in a conceptual task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 12 , 129-140. Nickerson, R.S. (1998). Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomena in many guises. Review of General Psychology , 2(2), 175-220. February . . .
. . .  R., and Tversky, A. (1985). The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences. Cognitive Psychology , 17 , 295-314. On Bayes’ Theorem: Baron, J. (2000). Thinking and Decision Making , Third Edition, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. section on Bayes’ theorem pp. 109 - 120). Eddy, D. M. (1982). Probabilistic reasoning . . .
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