At home on the range? Lay interpretations of numerical uncertainty ranges

NF Dieckmann, E Peters, R Gregory - Risk Analysis, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Numerical uncertainty ranges are often used to convey the precision of a forecast. In three
studies, we examined how users perceive the distribution underlying numerical ranges and …

Prompting deliberation increases base-rate use

NA Obrecht, DL Chesney - Judgment and Decision making, 2016 - cambridge.org
People often base judgments on stereotypes, even when contradictory base-rate information
is provided. In a sample of 438 students from two state universities, we tested several …

The causal impact of objective numeracy on judgments: Improving numeracy via symbolic and non-symbolic approximate arithmetic training yields more consistent …

DL Chesney, B Shoots-Reinhard… - Journal of Numerical …, 2021 - jnc.psychopen.eu
Abstract Park and Brannon (2013, https://doi. org/10.1177/0956797613482944) found that
practicing non-symbolic approximate arithmetic increased performance on an objective …

Sample representativeness affects whether judgments are influenced by base rate or sample size

NA Obrecht, DL Chesney - Acta Psychologica, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigated how people use base rates and sample size information when combining
data to make overall probability judgments. Participants considered two samples from an …

Worst Case Resistance Testing: A Nonresponse Bias Solution for Today's Behavioral Research Realities

SL France, FG Adams, VM Landers - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.08377, 2023 - arxiv.org
This study proposes a method of nonresponse assessment based on meta-analytical file-
drawer techniques, also known as worst-case resistance testing (WCRT), and suitable for a …

Sample size weighting follows a curvilinear function.

NA Obrecht - … of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research is mixed regarding whether laypeople are sensitive to sample size. Here
the author argues that this is in part because sample size sensitivity follows a curvilinear …

[PDF][PDF] A Critical Innovative Service Quality Measurement in Achieving Customer Satisfaction: A Lesson from Vietnamese Retail Banking Industry

NYN Hoang, NT Truong, V Kumar - 2022 - ieomsociety.org
Today, fulfilling customer needs is no longer a dilemma for service providers within the
context of growing many inventions and achievements related to innovative technology …

Employees' Perceptions of Managerial Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Effectiveness Among Information Technology Managers

O Ogunsakin - 2015 - search.proquest.com
The selection of effective leaders is critical to improving organizations' performance in the
current dynamic global business landscape; however, the inadequacy of leadership …

Two different views on the world around us: The world of uniformity versus diversity

JH Kwon, D Nayakankuppam - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We propose that when individuals believe in fixed traits of personality (entity theorists), they
are likely to expect a world of “uniformity.” As such, they easily infer a population statistic …

[BOG][B] Perceived leadership style and job satisfaction: Analysis of instructional and support departments in community colleges

R Johnson - 2014 - search.proquest.com
The purpose of this quantitative descriptive correlational study was to measure the
relationship between the subordinate's perceived style of leadership of their leader and the …