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Cognitive Psychology, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Why are human inferences sometimes remarkably close to the Bayesian ideal and other times systematically biased? In particular, why do humans make near-rational inferences in some natural domains where the candidate…
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Bayesian Modeling > Generative Model: “Cognitive Psychology, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Why are human inferences sometimes remarkably close to the Bayesian ideal and other times systematically biased? In particular, why do humans make near-rational inferences in some natural domains where the candidate…”