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WHEN persons observe randomly generated events of different kinds and are afterwards required to report on the frequency with which each kind of event occurred, they tend to over-estimate the frequency of occurrence of infrequent events and under-estimate that of comparatively frequent ones1,2.
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DALE, H. A Priori Probabilities in Gambling. Nature 183, 842–843 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183842a0
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