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Why People Tend To Overestimate Joint Probabilities, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Why People Tend To Overestimate Joint Probabilities, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
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It is known that, in general, people overestimate the probabilities of joint events. In this paper, we provide an explanation for this phenomenon -- as explanation based on Laplace Indeterminacy Principle and Maximum Entropy approach.