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CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF INTUITIVE ESTIMATES OF TIME‐SAVINGS
Author(s) -
Svenson Ola
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1971.tb00614.x
Subject(s) - statistics , psychology , group (periodic table) , relation (database) , control (management) , group structure , test (biology) , econometrics , mathematics , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , data mining , chemistry , paleontology , organic chemistry , biology , psychotherapist
SVENSON, O. Changing the structure of intuitive estimates of time‐savings. Scand. J. Psychol. , 1971, 12, 131–134.–Estimates of time saved when increasing an original assumed mean speed to a higher one were collected for different distances and combinations of velocities. Following each answer in five learning phases one group of subjects was given information about the correct time‐gain. A control group taking part only in the ten test phases of the experiment gave estimates systematically differing from real time‐gains following a previously suggested relation. The estimates given by the experimental group were improved to the same degree as the control group's estimates were gradually better approximated by the previously found relation.