Open AccessBelief in the law of small numbers.
Author(s) -
Amos Tversky,
Daniel Kahneman
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
psychological bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.737
H-Index - 313
eISSN - 1939-1455
pISSN - 0033-2909
DOI - 10.1037/h0031322
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , law , political science
People have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, that is, similar to the population in all essential characteristics.
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