PEOPLE’S INTUITIONS ABOUT RANDOMNESS AND PROBABILITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
PEOPLE’S INTUITIONS ABOUT RANDOMNESS AND PROBABILITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

 
 
 What people mean by randomness should be taken into account when teaching statistical inference. This experiment explored subjective beliefs about randomness and probability through two successive tasks. Subjects were asked to categorize 16 familiar items: 8 real items from everyday life experiences, and 8 stochastic items involving …