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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction [via Science]

From the abstract: “In coming to understand the world—in learning concepts, acquiring language, and grasping causal relations—our minds make inferences that appear to go far beyond the data available. How do we do it? This review describes recent approaches to … Continue reading

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What’s Next? Judging Sequences of Binary Events [HT Paul Kedrosky]

From the abstract … “The authors review research on judgments of random and nonrandom sequences involving binary events with a focus on studies documenting gambler’s fallacy and hot hand beliefs. The domains of judgment include random devices, births, lotteries, sports … Continue reading

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