Predicting biases in very highly educated samples: Numeracy and metacognition

We investigated the relations between numeracy and superior judgment and decision making in two large community outreach studies in Holland (n=5408). In these very highly educated samples (e.g., 30--50% held graduate degrees), the Berlin Numeracy Test was a robust predictor of financial, medical, a...

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Main Authors: Saima Ghazal, Edward T. Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2014-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/13/13919/jdm13919.pdf