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Introduction: Two Revolutions---Cognitive and Probabilistic |
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1 The Inference Revolution |
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From Tools to Theories: Scientists' Instruments as Metaphors of Mind |
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Metaphors; The Evolution of Metaphors; Statistical Tools as Cognitive Theories |
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Emergence of Statistical Inference |
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The First Test of a Null Hypothesis; Bayes; Sir Ronald A. Fisher; Jerzy Neyman and Egon S. Pearson |
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What Did Psychologists Do Before the Inference Revolution? |
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How Statistics Became an Indispensable Instrument: The Inference Revolution |
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The Inference Revolution (1940--1955); The Irrational Revolution; the Permanent Illusion; Consequences and Alternatives; How Could the Inference Revolution Have Happened? |
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2 Detection and Discrimination: From Thresholds to Statistical Inference |
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History: Before the Inference Revolution |
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From Thresholds to Variability in Brain Activity; Why Didn't Thurstone Detect Signal Detection Theory?; Summary |
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The Emergence of the Statistical Metaphor: Signal Detection Theory |
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The Mind as a Neyman and Pearsonian Statistician; The Conceptual Change; The Receiver Operating Characteristic; Tanner's Conception of the Mind; Beyond Signal Detection Theory: A Metaphor Conquers the Mind |
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3 Perception: From Unconscious Inference to Hypothesis Testing |
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History: Before the Inference Revolution |
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Unconscious Inference; From Unconscious Inference to Intuitive Statistics |
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The Realist View: Pickup of Information |
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Invariants in the Ambient Light; The Loss of Uncertainty; Information Available and Information Used |
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The Inductive View: Hypothesis Testing |
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Methods of Science as Metaphor; The Betting Machine Metaphor |
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The Deductive View: Cognitive Algebra |
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Perception as Cognitive Algebra; The Fisherian Perspective in Hypothesis Construction; The Fisherian Perspective in Hypothesis Testing; The Circle of Hypothesis Construction and Testing |
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4 Memory: From Association to Decision Making |
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History: Before the Inference Revolution |
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The Behaviorist Legacy; Studies of Human Memory: Semon and Bartlett |
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The Emergence of the Decision Metaphor |
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Research During the 1960s and Early 1970s; The Return of Signal Detection Theory in the 1980s |
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Short-Term Memory; Search; Activation Rather Than Search |
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5 Thinking: From Insight to Intuitive Statistics |
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History: Before the Inference Revolution |
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The Fading of Associationism; Insight and Restructuring |
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Conservatism; Base Rate Neglect: The Kahneman and Tversky Program |
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Fundamental Assumptions in the Normative Program |
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Is There an Isomorphism Between the World and Bayes' Theorem?; Does Statistics Speak With One Voice? |
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The Fisherian Mind: Causal Reasoning |
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Scientists' Tools = Laws of Causal Reasoning; The Conceptual Skeleton |
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Mechanization of Inductive Inference; Elimination of Subjectivity |
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From Tools to Theories: In Their Own Image; The Integrative Perspective; Blind Spots; The Intuitive Statistician Reconsidered |
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References |
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Author Index |
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Subject Index |
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