Articulo
Editorial: Improving Bayesian Reasoning: What Works and Why.
Fecha
2015Registro en:
1150824
WOS:000366644600001
Institución
Resumen
Keywords: Bayesian reasoning, belief revision, risk communication, subjective probability, human judgment, individual differences, probabilistic judgment This edited collection was motivated by an interest in understanding how to improve Bayesian reasoning. In that sense, the book before you is pragmatically and prescriptively oriented. Several of the papers address that challenge and some pick up on the important question of why certain factors work as well as they do. However, Improving Bayesian Reasoning: What Works and Why offers more than its editors had bargained for or its title suggests. Many papers offer methodological and conceptual insights that should help readers understand the psychology of Bayesian reasoning as practiced in cognitive science. The book is comprised of 23 papers by 48 authors. The contributions are ordered by type: 10 original research articles first, followed by three reviews and 10 shorter essays. Foregoing an attempt to summarize each contribution in sufficient detail, let us simply draw out some observations about the collection.