Decisions such as selection of the 'best' person for the job or the most effective point at which to conduct performance training are based to a large extent on personal judgments formed from an analysis of 'soft' data. In the behavioural sciences, soft data can often take the form of self-report re
Confirmation in the Cognitive Sciences: The Problematic Case of Bayesian Models
β Scribed by Frederick Eberhardt; David Danks
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 367 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-6495
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