The Law of Small Numbers: Gonzales v. Carhart, Parents Involved in Community Schools, and Some Themes from the First Full Term of the Roberts CourtDuring October Term 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States decided fewer cases than during any Term since the end of the Civil War. 1 ...
The law of small numbers is the incorrect belief that small samples are likely to be highly representative of the populations from which they are drawn, similarly to large samples. For example, the law of small numbers could cause someone to assume that the way one person behaves necessarily ...
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BELIEF IN THE LAW OF SMALL NUMBERS People have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, that is, similar to the population in all essential characteristics. The prevalence... Student 被引量: 14...
Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers People exaggerate the degree to which small samples resemble the population from which they are drawn. To model this belief in the "Law of Small Numbers," ... M Rabin,RJ Barro,E Helpman,... - 《Method & Hist of Econ Thought》 被引量...
We develop a model of one representative agent and one asset. Theagent evaluates the earnings according to Prospect Theory and he doesnot know exactly the stochastic process generating earnings. Whilethe earnings are generated by a random walk process, the agent considersa Markovian process, according...
Traditionally, in terms of misconceptions, this problematic situation is investigated through the Law of Small Numbers. This paper gives a new interpretation to this phenomenon from the perspective of commognitive conflicts. Consequently, it is shown that the Law of Small Numbers results from two ...
The Law of Large Numbers and the Strength of Insurance The law of large numbers (or the related central limit theorem) is used in the literature on risk management and insurance to explain pooling of losses as an insurance mechanism. Also called the "law of averages", the principle holds ...
doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.5.486We follow an incorrect entry in a well-known table of series and products through several earlier tables and books, all the way to the relevant (correct) identity in the work of Euler. Along the way we explain what may have led to the error.Karl...
举个例子,我们不能说:The new law limits the number of money a candidate can spend. 因为money为不可数名词,而应该说:The new law limits theamountof money a candidate can spend. 一些同学可能还会见到这样的用法:large numbers/amounts of XX,这一搭配意思等同于a large number/amount of XX,举个例子...