TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1971//
TI  - Belief in law of small numbers
JO  - Psychological bulletin
A1  - Tversky, Amos
A1  - Kahneman, Daniel
SP  - 105
EP  - 110
VL  - 76
IS  - 2
N2  - Reports that people have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, I.e., similar to the population in all essential characteristics. The prevalence of the belief and its unfortunate consequences for psychological research are illustrated by the responses of 84 professional psychologists to a questionnaire concerning research decisions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2909
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0031322
ID  - ref1
ER  -